dec 27, 1948 - NATO is Created by 12 Countries - Founding members found NATO to resist USSSR and Communist expansion - Canada is one of the founding Signatories Soviet Union Tests Nuclear Bomb - Known to the US as Joe 1, the USSR tests their first succesful Nuclear bomb. - The world is impacted as a second Nuclear Power is born
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dec 27, 1948
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