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The U.S. Navy's Iowa-Class battleships are widely considered the best battleships to ever sail. They could have been armed with nuclear weapons. 

The invention of atomic bombs was one of the most momentous moments in history. Suddenly, nations had the power to vaporize whole cities in an instant.

Dr. Edward Teller was in the crowd at a remote location where Project Plowshare set off a nuclear blast in 1969.

A compendium of interesting places, hidden wonders, and strange stories from history

A compendium of interesting places, hidden wonders, and strange stories from history

A compendium of interesting places, hidden wonders, and strange stories from history

Tump, the then-leader of the free world, also inquired whether the U.S. could bomb China in retaliation for the alleged hurricane attack

In the 1950s the United States began a program called Peaceful Nuclear Explosions.

And America’s most controversial president demanded the test take place. And the tech in question inspired a later president to propose another controversial ABM system

The world took notice. Heres What You Need to Remember: The test’s success may have bolstered Nixon’s negotiating stance with his foreign and domestic opponents. The following year, his journey to China won great acclaim and his administration negotiated its first strategic-arms limitation treaty with the Soviets. On Nov. 6, 1971, the United States conducted its most powerful underground nuclear test to date. The massive, five-megaton blast detonated more than a mile below remote, windswep...