Bombs Away
On this day, Sept 23, President Truman told the country that the Soviets had detonated a nuclear bomb. It was 1949, four years after US citizens had first heard of the new weapon. The following year began the race for bigger and better bombs. The Soviets exploded at least 700 more bombs, and the United States tested its bombs more than a thousand times. All over the world, at least 2153 nuclear explosive tests have been conducted. The last explosion by the United States would come exactly 43 years after Truman's announcement, on September 23, 1992.
The General in charge of the nuclear arsenal, Curtis LeMay, wanted to use the weapon in North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam.
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