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1949 in military history | HearLore
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1949 in military history
North Atlantic TreatyTheodore Achilles kept a draft of the North Atlantic Treaty in the bottom drawer of his safe during secret talks at the Pentagon.
RDS-1The Kurchatov Institute, then officially known as Laboratory Number 2, began work on the RDS-1 device in April 1946. Plutonium for this weapon came from the…
Berlin BlockadeThe Potsdam Agreement signed between the 17th of July and the 2nd of August 1945 divided defeated Germany into four temporary occupation zones.