The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Compare and Contrast


1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is founded to create an alliance between the United States and nations of Western Europe in opposition to the military might of the Soviet Union in much of Eastern Europe.

1955: The Warsaw Pact forms a military alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations.

1963: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, bans the testing of nuclear weapons in the earth’s atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater; it limits the testing of...

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