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1st Nuclear Explosion

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1952

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill2 October 1952

Government / Conservative Party Government

The 1st British nuclear bomb is exploded

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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