Nuclear Weapons

Also, here is the Nuclear Weapons write-up...  

Beginning with the Manhattan Project’s scientific breakthrough in the 1930s and the first nuclear detonation in July 1945, the two atomic bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945 ended the war in the Pacific and helped shape the modern nuclear age. Further developments led to the hydrogen bomb and thermonuclear weapons -- theoretically thousands of times more powerful than the atomic bombs of 1945. Subsequent tests uncovered the devastating effects of nuclear fallout and led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underwater, or in outer space. Throughout the 50s and 60s, competition in the race for nuclear technology resulted in political and cultural tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In 1962, the U.S.S.R. stationed nuclear ballistic missiles in Cuba, and the Cold War culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the modern era has become known as the “second nuclear age.” The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty officially recognizes states in possession of nuclear weapons technology and serves to monitor and set standards for development and use of nuclear technology on a global scale.