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Non Proliferation
Safeguards to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation
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Most countries participate in international initiatives designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The international safeguards system has since 1970 successfully prevented the diversion ...
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Subsequent Weapons Testing
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Two atomic bombs made from uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively early in August 1945. The atmospheric testing of some 545 nuclear weapons continued up...
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