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The Oppenheimer security hearing was a 1954 proceeding by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) that explored the background, actions, and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who had headed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, where he played a key part in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. The hearing resulted in Oppenheimer's Q clearance being revoked. This marked the end of his formal relationship with the government of the United States, and generated considerable controversy regarding whether the treatment of Oppenheimer was fair, or whether it was an expression of anti-Communist McCarthyism.
I.L( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_hearing)
The Strategic Air Command, or SAC 1946-1992, was the air command in the United States Air Force that was chiefly responsible for the deployment and maintenance of nuclear armed bombers and missiles during the Cold War.May
Tsar Bomba was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, code name Ivan or Vanya, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful man-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as Kuzkina mat , possibly referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat, an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you!”, at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly. The bomb had a yield of 50 megaton TNT. In theory, it had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. The single bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, at Snezhinsk.
I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba)
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis , or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis)
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The Oppenheimer security hearing was a 1954 proceeding by the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) that explored the background, actions, and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who had headed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, where he played a key part in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. The hearing resulted in Oppenheimer's Q clearance being revoked. This marked the end of his formal relationship with the government of the United States, and generated considerable controversy regarding whether the treatment of Oppenheimer was fair, or whether it was an expression of anti-Communist McCarthyism.
I.L( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_hearing)
The Strategic Air Command, or SAC 1946-1992, was the air command in the United States Air Force that was chiefly responsible for the deployment and maintenance of nuclear armed bombers and missiles during the Cold War.May
Tsar Bomba was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, code name Ivan or Vanya, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful man-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as Kuzkina mat , possibly referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat, an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you!”, at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly. The bomb had a yield of 50 megaton TNT. In theory, it had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. The single bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, at Snezhinsk.
I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba)
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis , or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
I.L (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis)