** Leaders of the Soviet Union

** President of the Soviet Union

** Premier of the Soviet Union

** Theatre of the Soviet Union

** 114. flerovium, Fl, named after Soviet physicist Georgy Flyorov, founder of the JINR ( 1999 ).

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U. S. flyers parachute to safety.

** U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.

** British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.

** Spain beats the Soviet Union 2 – 1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

** Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941.

** Germany attacks the Soviet Union ( June 22, 1941 ).

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US $ 6. 8M.

** Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) established by Soviet Union and other communist nations.

** The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named " Joe 1 ".

** Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast

** Konstantin Chernenko, President of the Soviet Union ( d. 1985 )

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

** Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.

** Fermi 1 and Fermi 2 nuclear power plants in Newport, Michigan

** nuclear properties

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** Advanced Heavy Water Reactor ( AHWR )— A proposed heavy water moderated nuclear power reactor that will be the next generation design of the PHWR type.

** Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity

** 2 × B57 nuclear bombs

** Thulegate, a political scandal involving nuclear weapons

** 109. meitnerium, Mt, named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was one of the earliest scientists to become involved in the study of nuclear fission ( 1982 ).

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** Nuclear: A runaway nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction causes immense energy release.

** A 5. 3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program.

** The keel is laid for the U. S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

** North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.

** South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme.

** China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide de facto moratorium.

** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.

** James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist ( d. 2007 )

** The Franck Committee recommends against a surprise nuclear bombing of Japan.

** Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate ( d. 2007 )