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DAWN OF THE ATOM
ATOMIC PIONEERS
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilee
Robert Boyle
Ole Roemer
Isaac Newton
Emile Du Chatelet
Antoine Laurent Lavoiser
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Heinrich Hertz
JJ Thompson
Marie Curie
Max Plank
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
Otto Hahn
Niels Bohr
James Chadwick
Leo Szilard
Enrico Fermi
Lise Meitner
Werner Heisenberg
Emilio Serge & Glenn Seaborg
526bc - 200bc
1513 - 1695
1747 - 1798
1821 - 1898
1900 - 1911
1914 - 1922
1932 - 1933
1933 - 1938
1939 - 1941
December 7 1941
QUEST FOR THE ATOM
MANHATTAN PROJECT VIP's
Vannevar Bush
Arthur H. Compton
General Leslie Groves
Robert Oppenheimer
Enrico Fermi
Leo Szilard
Seth Neddermeyer
Earnest Lawrence
Emilio Segre
Edward Teller
Hans Bethe
Rudolf Peierls
George Kistiakowsky
James Tuck
Henry Stimson
March 1942 - OSRD Report
June 1942 - The Directive
Sept. 1942 - Site X
Nov. 1942 - Site Y
Dec. 1942 - The Uranium Pile
Feb. 1943 - The Nazi Bomb
March 1943 - Los Alamos
June 1943 - Clinton Works
Aug. 1943 - Hanford
Aug. 1943 - The Gadget
Dec. 1943 - Little Boy
June 1944 - D-Day
June 1944 - The Marianas
Feb. 1945 - Iwo Jima
March 1945 - Tokyo
July 1945 - Trinity
Aug. 1945 - Hiroshima
TRIALS OF THE ATOM
EARLY TESTING
Operation Crossroads
Operation Sandstone
Operation Ranger
Operation Ivy
Operation Upshot-Knothole
Operation Castle
Aug. 1945 - Nagasaki
Sept. 1945 - A New War
May 1946 - Pacific Tests
Aug. 1949 - Russia's Bomb
June 1950 - The Korean War
Jan. 1951 - Nevada Tests
Nov. 1952 - The H-Bomb
Aug. 1953 - Soviet H-Bomb
March 1954 - New Tests
RACE WITH THE ATOM
BROKEN ARROWS
Kirtland Air Force Base
Suisun Air Force Base
Quebec, Canada
The Mediterranean Sea
Lakenheath Air Base
Kirtland Air Force Base
Coast of Georgia, U.S.
Greenham Common, UK
McGuire Air Force Base
North Carolina, U.S.
U.S.S.R. K-19
Johnston Island Tests
USS Thresher
USS Ticonderoga
USS Scorpion
Bunker Hill Air Force Base
U.S.S.R. K-8
Damascus, Arkansas
U.S.S.R. K-219
Vladivostok, Russia
U.S.S.R. K-278
USS Grayling
The Kursk
1953 - Origins of The Missile
1957 - The ICBM
1959 - The SLBM
1960 - The Downwinders
1960 - France's Bomb
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1964 - Chinas Bomb
1965 - ABMs
1968 - The NPT
1972 - Salt 1 Treaty
1979 - Salt 2 Treaty
LEGACY OF THE ATOM
NUCLEAR POWER ACCIDENTS
Windscale Reactor, UK
Chelyabinsk 40, U.S.S.R.
Rocky Flats, Colorado
Idaho National Laboratory
Fermi Breeder Reactor
Browns Ferry Facility
Three Mile Island
Church Rock, New Mexico
Chernobyl
1954 - Atomic Energy Act
1957 - Price Anderson Act
1974 - The NRC
1979 - Three Mile Island
1982 - Nuclear Waste Act
1986 - Chernobyl Disaster
1987 - Yucca Mountain
1996 - Tenn. Valley Authority
2001 - Vision 2020
2004 - The Bathtub Curve
CHASING THE ATOM
1963 - LTB Treaty
1968 - NPT Treaty
1967 - Isreal's Bomb
1974 - India's Bomb
1974 - A.Q. Khan
1974 - Iraq's Program
1977 - South Africa's Bomb
1998 - Pakistan's Bomb
2004 - Iran's Program
2006 - North Korea's Bomb
2009 - The Terror Bomb
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THE HISTORY OF THE ATOM:
Dawn of the Atom | 526BC-1941
Quest for the Atom | 1942-1945
Trials of the Atom | 1945-1954
Race for the Atom | 1953-1979
Legacy of the Atom | 1954-2004
Chasing the Atom | 1963-2009
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