This day in history - August 29

[seamusTX]

1909 - Glenn Curtis won the first widely recognized air race in Rheims, France.

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1949 - The USSR tested its first atomic bomb, launching the nuclear arms race.

1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes straight.

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- Jim

[USA1]

seamus , i can't quite make out in that picture if thats you or not .
if it is ...nice legs

[LarryH]

Shouldn't that 1949 entry be the first hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear bomb?

I associate "atomic bomb" with U-235, two of which were "dropped in anger" in August 1945.

[seamusTX]

seamus , i can't quite make out in that picture if thats you or not.
if it is ...nice legs

Thanks. That's the north end of my southbound horse and me -- 30 years ago.

Horseback riding, like bicycle riding, is very good for leg condition.

Shouldn't that 1949 entry be the first hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear bomb?
I associate "atomic bomb" with U-235, two of which were "dropped in anger" in August 1945.

The Soviets exploded their first fission bomb in 1949. What I meant by "launching the nuclear arms race" was that after the first Soviet test, both sides felt compelled to outdo one another.

The first Soviet hydrogen bomb was in 1953.

- Jim

[LarryH]

Looked right at "USSR", but my brain processed "US". My bad.

[DoubleJ]

Looked right at "USSR", but my brain processed "US". My bad.

not hard to do, these days...