• Local hangout,
Coffee House of High Principles, opens. |
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• First of 22 Plowshare
tests detonated at Carlsbad, New Mexico.
• Guaje Pines Cemetery dedicated.
• Renewed emphasis on civil defense shelters and food supplies
($5.00 per person for two-week supply). |
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•
First joint US/UK test at NTS.
• PHERMEX (pulsed high-energy radiographic machine emitting
x-rays) hydrotest facility completed.
• Underground Nuclear Test Containment Program begins.
• President Kennedy visits Los Alamos, President Kennedy visits
NTS.
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Vela
Satellite |
•
Vela satellite sensors developed to detect nuclear explosions.
• Science Museum opens to the public.
• Chamber of Commerce organized. |
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• Worlds highest-voltage
Van de Graaff accelerator operational. |
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• First
government home sold to a private citizen in Western Area. |
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• Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory designated a Registered National.
Historic Landmark.
• Nations first nuclear safeguards program begins.
• School facilities transferred from the AEC to the county.
• First motel opens. |
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• White Rock gets
a post office. |
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• Boxcar
is the largest underground test ever conducted at NTS (1.3 megatons). |
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• Radioisotope thermoelectric
generator (RTG) research and development begins.
•Milrow nuclear test detonated at Amchitka, Alaska. |
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President
Kennedy |
•
France tests atomic bomb in Sahara Desert.
• Luis Alvarez announces discovery of bubble chambers of
resonances.
• Rudolf Mossbauer discovers what becomes the "Mossbauer
effect."
• James Bonner discovers that chromosomes synthesize
RNA.
• Geothermal power is produced for the first time in
the U.S.
• U2 spy-plane incident. .
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected President of the United
States.
• President Kennedy launches Apollo Space program. |
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• US begins military
buildup in Vietnam.
• Berlin Wall erected.
• First nuclear test moratorium ends.
• USSR resumes atmospheric nuclear testing.
• President Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear
testing.
• Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space. |
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• US conducts its
last atmospheric nuclear test.
• Cuban Missile Crisis.
• A group headed by G. Danby established there are two types
of neutrinos.
• Second Vatican Council commences. |
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President
Johnson |
•
Limited Test Ban Treaty signed by US, UK, and USSR prohibiting testing
of nuclear weapons in space, above ground, and under water.
• Maarten Schmidt discovers quasars.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer receives the Fermi Award.
• President Kennedy assassinated.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes President. |
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![Leonid Brezhnev](images/brezhnev_sm.jpg)
Leonid
Brezhnev |
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China explodes 20-kiloton atomic bomb.
• The International Rice Research Institute introduces
new strains of rice to start the "green revolution."
• Murray Gell-Mann introduces the concept of quarks.
• Aswan Dam on the Nile is completed.
• Civil Rights Act is passed.
• U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases after Gulf of
Tonkin incident.
• Rachel Carsons Silent Spring launches environmental
movement.
• Leonid Ilich Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist
Party. |
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• Arno
Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally find the radio-wave remnants
of the Big Bang.
• The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center particle accelerator
becomes operational.
• Cesar Chavez leads a farm workers strike in the San Joaquin
Valley of California.
• President Johnson's "Great Society" programs
-- Medicare, Water Quality Act, Higher Education Act, enacted. |
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• Venera
III, the Soviet Union's space probe, land on Venus, becoming the first
human object to land on another planet.
• The U.S.'s Surveyor I has a soft lunar landing and returns
pictures of the lunar surface to earth.
• Fuel injection for automobile engines is developed in the
United Kingdom.
• China begins its cultural revolution.
• National Organization for Women is formed. |
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•
China explodes 3-megaton hydrogen bomb.
• Outer Space Treaty signed by US, UK, and USSR.
• Both the U.S. and Soviet space programs experience accidental
deaths of its spacemen.
• Rene Favaloro develops the coronary bypass operation.
• S. Manabe and R.T. Wetherald warn that increases in carbon
dioxide in the air will lead to a greenhouse effect.
• Jocelyn Bell discovers the first pulsar.
• Hans Bethe wins Nobel Prize for Physics for his study of
the energy production of stars.
• Keyboards are introduced for data input to computers.
• Arab-Israeli 6-day War. |
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•
Tet offensive in Vietnam.
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed by US, UK, and USSR.
• France explodes 2-megaton hydrogen bomb at Muroroa Atoll.
• Bikini Atoll is re-inhabited by native people.
• Supertankers are put into service.
• Andrey Sakharov speaks out in favor of nuclear arms reduction.
• Martin Luther Kind and Robert Kennedy assassinated. |
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Buzz
Aldrin on the Moon |
•
Richard Milhous Nixon becomes President of the United States.
• Neil Armstrong is first man on the Moon.
• Fermilab is established in Batavia, Illinois.
• "Bubble memory" created for computers.
• Yasir Arafat becomes leader of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization.
• Woodstock festival marks height of U.S. "counter
culture". |
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