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Arms and Space Race Timeline

U.S Arms Race

Drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

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Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis writes Truman to give priority to the H-Bomb

1949

President Truman announces his decision on the Hydrogen Bomb

1950

Truman confirms use of nuclear weapons in Korea being consideration.

1950

Royal Air Force fly photographic and radar reconnaissance missions over Soviet

1952

S.U. Arms Race

Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

July, 1948

First Soviet atomic bomb [first Soviet Test] is exploded in Kazakhstan.

1949

Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov moves to Arzamas, the secret weapons lab.

1949

Soviet Union conducts its second nuclear test, an improved plutonium bomb

1950

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Soviet Premier Georgii Malenkov announces that USSR possesses hydrogen bomb.

1953

U.S. Space Race

V-2 Rocket

9/3/1942

Albert II became first money in Space

June 11, 1948

First American Satellite Enters Orbit Around Earth

1958

Pioneer 3

December 6, 1958

Armstrong on the Moon

1969

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S.U. Space Race

V-2 Rocket

1943

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Sputnik 1

October 4, 1957

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Dog sent up to Space

November 3, 1957

Luna 1 is launched. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun.

1959

Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.

1961