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Subj: Today in History - Oct 03
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Britain successfully tests its first atomic bomb at the Monte Bello
Islands, off the northwest coast of Australia.
During World War II, 50 British scientists and engineers worked on the
successful U.S. atomic bomb program at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After the
war, many of these scientists were enlisted into the secret effort to
build an atomic bomb for Britain. Work on the British A-bomb officially
began in 1947, and Los Alamos veteran William Penney served as the
program head. In February 1952, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
publicly announced the plans to test a British nuclear weapon, and on
October 3 a 25-kiloton device–similar to the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on
Nagasaki, Japan–was successfully detonated in the hull of the frigate
HMS Plym anchored off the Monte Bello Islands. The test made Britain the
world’s third atomic power after the United States and the Soviet Union.
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