On This Day - September 19th - The first underground nuclear explosion

The first underground nuclear explosion has taken place on this day in 1957. The explosion test was conducted by the U.S. government during a series of nuclear tests and trials in 1950 called Operation Plumbbob. This test, in particular, has been named Ranieri and was held at the Nevada Test Site near the town of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The explosion left no radioactive fallout content and has been deemed a success story. The race for dominance of nuclear weapons began in 1941 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt awarded two billion dollars in funding for a research project plan secret nuclear weapons called the Manhattan Project during World War II. These controversial tests would help the United States are ready to use nuclear weapons in wartime.

The first atomic bomb was used in a nuclear war was in 1945 when the U.S. bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and August 9, 1945 during the Second World War. The bombings were a response to the attacks on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The U.S. government was the first to experiment with, produce and use nuclear weapons. Since World War II, many countries have developed nuclear weapons or have implemented a program to develop nuclear weapons.

Why do you think that the first underground nuclear explosion is historically significant? See a test from the Nevada Test Site.

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