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96 relations: Actinide, Albert Ghiorso, Americium, Berkelium, Bill Downs, British hydrogen bomb programme, Castle Bravo, Castle Romeo, Castle Union, Castle Yankee, Curium, Deuterium, Doomsday Clock, Duck and Cover (film), Edward Teller, Einsteinium, Elugelab, Enewetak Atoll, Enrico Fermi, Fermium, Freedom of the seas, Fusion power, Gordon Dean (lawyer), Henry DeWolf Smyth, High Explosive Research, History of nuclear weapons, History of Oceania, History of the Marshall Islands, History of the Teller–Ulam design, Igor Kurchatov, Isotopes of gold, Ivy (disambiguation), Ivy King, J. Carson Mark, Joe 4, John Archibald Wheeler, John R. Huizenga, John T. Hayward, Kenneth W. Ford, Liquid hydrogen, List of nuclear weapons, List of nuclear weapons tests, List of states with nuclear weapons, Mark 13 nuclear bomb, Mark 16 nuclear bomb, Mark 5 nuclear bomb, Marshall Holloway, Marshall Islands, Meteor Crater, Mike (disambiguation), ..., November 1, Nuclear fusion, Nuclear triad, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon design, Nuclear weapon yield, Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom, Nuclear weapons of the United States, Nuclear weapons testing, Nuclear winter, Operation Castle, Operation Grapple, Operation Greenhouse, Operation Ivy, Orders of magnitude (pressure), Pacific Proving Grounds, Peaceful nuclear explosion, Philip J. Dolan, Pre-emptive nuclear strike, Presidency of Harry S. Truman, Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), Raemer Schreiber, RDS-37, Reed Hadley, Richard Garwin, Runit Island, Samuel Collins (physicist), Sausage (disambiguation), Science and technology in the United States, Soviet atomic bomb project, Stanislaw Ulam, Thermonuclear weapon, Timeline of events in the Cold War, Timeline of hydrogen technologies, Timeline of nuclear fusion, Timeline of nuclear weapons development, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Uranium-238, USS Hillsborough County (LST-827), USS PC-598, Vaporization, We Didn't Start the Fire, 1950s, 1952 in science, 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement, 367943 Duende. Expand index (46 more) »
Actinide
The actinide or actinoid (IUPAC nomenclature) series encompasses the 15 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers from 89 to 103, actinium through lawrencium.
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Albert Ghiorso
Albert Ghiorso (July 15, 1915 – December 26, 2010) was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table.
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Americium
Americium is a synthetic chemical element with symbol Am and atomic number 95.
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Berkelium
Berkelium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Bk and atomic number 97.
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Bill Downs
William Randall Downs, Jr. (August 17, 1914 – May 3, 1978) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
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British hydrogen bomb programme
The British hydrogen bomb programme was the ultimately successful British effort to develop hydrogen bombs between 1952 and 1958.
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Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle.
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Castle Romeo
Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American nuclear tests.
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Castle Union
Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests.
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Castle Yankee
Castle Yankee was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American tests of thermonuclear bombs.
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Curium
Curium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Cm and atomic number 96.
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Deuterium
Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1).
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Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.
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Duck and Cover (film)
Duck and Cover is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterizedhttps://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/the-unexpected-return-of-duck-and-cover/68776/ The Unexpected Return of 'Duck and Cover' as propaganda.
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he claimed he did not care for the title.
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Einsteinium
Einsteinium is a synthetic element with symbol Es and atomic number 99.
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Elugelab
Elugelab, or Elugelap (Āllokļap), was an island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Ānewetak,, or Āne-wātak) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 850 people forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.
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Fermium
Fermium is a synthetic element with symbol Fm and atomic number 100.
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Freedom of the seas
Freedom of the seas (mare liberum, lit. "free sea") is a principle in the international law and sea.
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Fusion power
Fusion power is a form of power generation in which energy is generated by using fusion reactions to produce heat for electricity generation.
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Gordon Dean (lawyer)
Gordon Evans Dean (December 28, 1905 – August 15, 1958) was a Seattle-born Time magazine, Jul.
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Henry DeWolf Smyth
Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898 – September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat.
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High Explosive Research
High Explosive Research was the British project to independently develop atomic bombs after the Second World War.
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History of nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions.
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History of Oceania
The History of Oceania includes the history of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific island nations.
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History of the Marshall Islands
Micronesians settled the Marshall Islands in the 2nd millennium BC, but there are no historical or oral records of that period.
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History of the Teller–Ulam design
This article chronicles the history and origins of the Teller–Ulam design, the technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs.
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Igor Kurchatov
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов; 8(21) January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
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Isotopes of gold
Gold (79Au) has one stable isotope, 197Au, and 36 radioisotopes, with 195Au being the most stable with a half-life of 186 days.
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Ivy (disambiguation)
Ivy without qualifiers usually means plants in the genus Hedera in the family Araliaceae.
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Ivy King
Ivy King was the largest pure-fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States.
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J. Carson Mark
Jordan Carson Mark (July 6, 1913 – March 2, 1997) was a Canadian-born mathematician best known for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Joe 4
Joe 4 (warhead name: RDS-6s (Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Specialnyi; Special Jet Engine)) was an American nickname for the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon on August 12, 1953, that detonated with a force equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT.
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist.
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John R. Huizenga
John Robert Huizenga (April 21, 1921 – January 25, 2014) was an American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and who also received more recent fame for attempting to debunk Utah scientists' claim of achieving cold fusion.
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John T. Hayward
John Tucker "Chick" Hayward (15 November 1908 – 23 May 1999) was a World War II naval aviator.
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Kenneth W. Ford
Kenneth William Ford (born May 1, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist, teacher, and writer, currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Liquid hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen (LH2 or LH2) is the liquid state of the element hydrogen.
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List of nuclear weapons
This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, & then by type within the states.
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List of nuclear weapons tests
Nuclear weapons testing according to the standard definition used in treaty language for the space/time requirement is: In conformity with treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union, a salvo is defined, for multiple explosions for peaceful purposes, as two or more separate explosions where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points, and the total length does not exceed 40 kilometers.
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List of states with nuclear weapons
There are eight sovereign states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons.
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Mark 13 nuclear bomb
The Mark 13 nuclear bomb and its variant, the W-13 nuclear warhead, were experimental nuclear weapons developed by the United States from 1951 to 1954.
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Mark 16 nuclear bomb
The Mark 16 nuclear bomb was a large thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device ever test fired.
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Mark 5 nuclear bomb
The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from 1952 to 1963.
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Marshall Holloway
Marshall Glecker Holloway (November 23, 1912 – June 18, 1991) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II.
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Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line.
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Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.
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Mike (disambiguation)
Mike is a personal given name.
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November 1
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Nuclear fusion
In nuclear physics, nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
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Nuclear triad
A nuclear triad is a three-pronged military force structure that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear-missile-armed submarines and strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs and missiles.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Nuclear weapon design
Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.
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Nuclear weapon yield
The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene which, if detonated, would produce the same energy discharge), either in kilotons (kt—thousands of tons of TNT), in megatons (Mt—millions of tons of TNT), or sometimes in terajoules (TJ).
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Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom
In October 1952, the United Kingdom (UK) became the third country to independently develop and test nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons of the United States
The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the separate bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
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Nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is the severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a nuclear war.
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Operation Castle
Operation Castle was a United States series of high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954.
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Operation Grapple
Operation Grapple was the name of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.
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Operation Greenhouse
Operation Greenhouse was the fifth American nuclear test series, the second conducted in 1951 and the first to test principles that would lead to developing thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs).
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Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests, coming after Tumbler—Snapper and before Upshot–Knothole.
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Orders of magnitude (pressure)
This is a tabulated listing of the orders of magnitude in relation to pressure expressed in pascals.
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Pacific Proving Grounds
The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962.
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Peaceful nuclear explosion
Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes.
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Philip J. Dolan
Philip Jarvis Dolan (October 5, 1923 – January 5, 1992) graduated in physics from West Point in 1945, was assigned to the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, in 1948 received his MSc in physics from the University of Virginia in 1956.
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Pre-emptive nuclear strike
In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force.
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Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The presidency of Harry S. Truman began on April 12, 1945, when Harry S. Truman became President of the United States upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953.
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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion).
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Raemer Schreiber
Raemer Edgar Schreiber (November 11, 1910 – December 24, 1998) was an American physicist from McMinnville, Oregon who served Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II, participating in the development of the atomic bomb.
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RDS-37
RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955.
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Reed Hadley
Reed Hadley (born Reed Herring, June 25, 1911 – December 11, 1974) was an American film, television and radio actor.
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Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist, widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
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Runit Island
Runit Island (pronounced) is one of 40 islands of the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Samuel Collins (physicist)
Samuel Cornette Collins (September 28, 1898 in Kentucky – June 19, 1984 in Washington, DC.) was an American physicist.
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Sausage (disambiguation)
Sausage is a type of prepared meat.
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Science and technology in the United States
The United States of America came into being around the Age of Enlightenment (1685 to 1815), an era in Western philosophy in which writers and thinkers, rejecting the perceived superstitions of the past, instead chose to emphasize the intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
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Soviet atomic bomb project
The Soviet atomic bomb project (Russian: Советский проект атомной бомбы, Sovetskiy proyekt atomnoy bomby) was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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Stanislaw Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics.
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Thermonuclear weapon
A thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design using a secondary nuclear fusion stage consisting of implosion tamper, fusion fuel, and spark plug which is bombarded by the energy released by the detonation of a primary fission bomb within, compressing the fuel material (tritium, deuterium or lithium deuteride) and causing a fusion reaction.
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Timeline of events in the Cold War
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
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Timeline of hydrogen technologies
This is a timeline of the history of hydrogen technology.
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Timeline of nuclear fusion
This timeline of nuclear fusion is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion.
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Timeline of nuclear weapons development
This timeline of nuclear weapons development is a chronological catalog of the evolution of nuclear weapons rooting from the development of the science surrounding nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.
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United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.
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Uranium-238
Uranium-238 (238U or U-238) is the most common isotope of uranium found in nature, with a relative abundance of 99%.
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USS Hillsborough County (LST-827)
USS Hillsborough County (LST-827) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II.
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USS PC-598
USS PC-598 was a 173' metal hulled that saw duty in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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Vaporization
Vaporization (or vapourisation) of an element or compound is a phase transition from the liquid phase to vapor.
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We Didn't Start the Fire
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by American musician Billy Joel.
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1950s
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the 50s or Fifties) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
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1952 in science
The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
The 1958 US–UK Mutual Defense Agreement, or UK–US Mutual Defence Agreement, is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation.
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367943 Duende
367943 Duende, provisional designation, is a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately in diameter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
