How Every Country Got Nukes Complete Timeline
Exploring how each country developed nuclear weapons, with the betrayals and rivalries that enabled the global race for the most powerful military technology ever discovered. Since the US became the first with the Manhattan project, all of the worlds leading nations secretly developed their own nuclear programs to maintain their positions. This video explains the process of all 10 countries and how they interacted with each other, every nuclear bomb test explosion, as well as what other nations attempted to create atomic weapons, who stored them on behalf of allied countries and who might soon be added to the list.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:46 United States
1:51 Soviet Union
2:47 United Kingdom
3:57 Thermonuclear
4:58 France
6:04 China
7:04 Israel
9:02 India
10:42 South Africa
12:28 Pakistan
14:59 North Korea
17:12 Nuclear Hosting
18:15 Countries That Tried
19:26 Nuclear Free Zones
20:18 Secrecy
Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAcUXVy4xU
Sources:
The Nuclear Weapon Archive
https://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/index.html
Status of World Nuclear Forces
https://fas.org/initiative/status-world-nuclear-forces/
Pakistan’s nuclear Posture: implications for South Asian Stability
https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183022/http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Pakistans_Nuclear_Posture_policy_brief.pdf
United States Secretly Deployed Nuclear Weapons During Cold War
https://web.archive.org/web/20210207142738/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/19991020/
NATO Nuclear Non Proliferation Position
https://www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf_topics/20091022_NATO_Position_on_nuclear_nonproliferation-eng.pdf