For my final project I plan to l examine the history of nuclear weapons.  This graph is helpful because it shows the peaks in literature concerning nuclear warfare, weapons, and atomic bombs.  I took a look at Wikipedia’s History of Nuclear Weapons to get a better idea of where some of these peaks came from.  WWII and the Cold War seem to surround the majority of the information.  Here are some points of interest:

• 1942– Starting point.  Theoretical conference for the development of the atomic bomb, University of California, Berkeley
• 1945– WWII. United States bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
• 1949– First atomic bomb testing by the Soviet Union
• 1952– United States “Operation Ivy,” first U.S. fusion bomb test
• 1962– Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963– Limited Test Ban Treaty
• 1927– NATO plants Pershing II missiles in Western Europe in response to USSR missiles
• 1982– Protest against nuclear warfare in New York
• 1987– Protest against nuclear warfare in Nevada