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    1946F-1 (nuclear reactor) Shared thread 1962Cuban Missile Crisis Shared thread 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Shared thread 1962Vasily Arkhipov Shared thread 1922Creation of the Soviet Union Shared thread 1952Operation Ivy Shared thread

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    The bomb was assembled during the night and finished only hours before its 7:00 a.m. detonation — and the Americans learned of it from radioactive dust caught by a weather plane five days later.

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