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The U.S. Department of Energy maintains a Human Radiation Experiments homepage containing thousands of reports and declassified documents, including information on specific atmospheric nuclear tests in which Navy and Marine Corps, as well as civilian employees participated.
Atmospheric Nuclear Testing
1939
Jan. - Enrico Fermi and Neils Bohr meet to discuss possibilities of nuclear chain reaction
Aug. 2 - Einstein signs letter to President Roosevelt warning about atomic bombs
1941
Dec. 6 - President Roosevelt approves program to develop atomic bomb
1942
Dec. 2 - Nuclear reaction sustained in Enrico Fermi's atomic reactor at U of Chicago
1958
Jan. 31 - U.S. Explorer I put into orbit - led to discovery of Van Allen radiation belts
Oct. 1 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed
White Sands Missile Range