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Timeline of the first nuclear weapons:
🇺🇸 United States of America
First test: "Trinity" (July 1945, 16)
Key Person: Robert Oppenheimer
☭ Soviet Union
First test: "RDS-1" (also known as "Ivan" or "Joe-1") (August 1949, 29)
Main person: Igor Kurchatov
🇬🇧 Great Britain
First test: "Hurricane" (October 1952, 3)
Main character: William Penny
🇫🇷 France
First Test: "Gerboise Bleue" (February 1960, 13)
Key Person: General Pierre Marie Gallois
🇨🇳 China
First test: "596" (October 1964, 16)
Main character: Nie Rongzhen
🇮🇳 India
Test One: The Smiling Buddha (May 1974, 18)
Protagonist: Raja Ramanna
🇵🇰 Pakistan
First test: "Chagai-I" (May 1998, 28)
Key Person: Abdul Qadir Khan
🇰🇵 North Korea
First Test: Punggye-ri Nuclear Test (October 2006, 9)
Main figure: Kim Jong-il