The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
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North Korea performed a controversial intercontinental ballistic missile test.
Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.
The US started plans to construct its first nuclear battlefield weapon.
The world's first atomic bomb was detonated.
The United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test at the Nevada Test Site.
