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declaring war on us. Worried? Oh pur-lease! I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
12.40pm, December 8, 1941
    When Japan launched an unexpected attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it stunned America. The attack led directly to American entry into World War Two.
THE INVENTION OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB
    @JROppenheimer
Bit bored so thought I’d see what happens if you assemble a mass of fissile material into a supercritical mass. Quite a lot, it turns out.
5.31am, July 6, 1945
    @JROppenheimer
I am become death. The destroyer of worlds.
5.32am, July 6, 1945
    @KennethBainbridge
@JROppenheimer Yup, now we are all sons of bitches.
5.33am, July 6, 1945
    J Robert Oppenheimer was the head of the Manhattan Project: the development programme that produced the first nuclear bomb. On witnessing the successful detonation of the world’s first nuclear bomb, he quoted a passage from The Bhagavad Gita. Test director Kenneth Bainbridge’s reported words were just as apt.

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
    @MayorOfHiroshima
What the fuck was that bang? #famouslasttweets
8.16am, August 6, 1945
    @HarrySTruman
@MayorOfHiroshima That was ‘Little Boy’ named after @President Roosevelt
8.16am, August 6, 1945
    @PresidentRoosevelt
@HarrySTruman Scuse me! You’re not exactly a horse yourself from what I’ve heard.
8.17am, August 6, 1945
    @MayorOfNagasaki
What the fuck was that bang? #famouslasttweets
11.01am, August 9, 1945
    @HarrySTruman
@MayorOfNagasaki That was ‘TheFatMan’, named after @WinstonChurchill.
8.16am, August 9, 1945
    @WinstonChurchill
@HarrySTruman @PresidentRoosevelt Better a fat man than a little boy, no?
8.17am, August 9, 1945
    @StephenFry
@HarrySTruman @MayorOfHiroshima
@MayorOfNagasaki Oh, must you all be so beastly to each other? I’m leaving Twitter!
8.18am, August 9, 1945
    America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. First, the ‘Little Boy’ bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing over 100,000 people. Three days later America dropped the ‘Fat Man’ bomb on Nagasaki, killing over 74,000 people.

THE COLD WAR
    @TheUSofA
So we’ve got nuclear bombs.
10.00am, August 10, 1945
    @TheSoviets
So have we.
11.02pm, August 29, 1949
    @TheUSofA
We had them first.
0.01am, January 1, 1950
    @TheSoviets
What’s your point?
0.01am, January 1, 1960
    @TheUSofA
Nothing – just saying.
0.01am, January 1, 1970
    @TheSoviets
Whatever
0.01am, January 1, 1980
    @TheUSofA
Tsssk
0.01am, January 1, 1989
    Between the end of World War Two and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, international relations were defined by the tense nuclear stand-off between the East and West.
    ‘Some gobbledegook from Titanic… LOL …then two hours later, OMG .’

PRINCE CHARLES IS BORN
    @PrincePhilip
Welcome to the world – and Twitter – @PrinceCharles. So proud. I’d like him to have the things I wasn’t able to have.
11.01pm, 14 November, 1948
    @PrincePhilip
India, for instance.
11.03pm, 14 November, 1948
    By the time Prince Charles was born the British Empire was a thing of the past.

THE RISE OF FEMINISM
    @SimonedeBeauvoir
I’m publishing a book today about the bad treatment of women throughout history. It’s called The Second Sex .
9.29am, June 1, 1949
    @MaleTweeter
Giggle, she said ‘sex’! Pffffftttttt…
9.31am, June 1, 1949
    @GermaineGreer
I’m publishing a book about feminism. It’s called The Female Eunuch .
9.31am, May 2, 1970
    @MaleTweeter
She said ‘eunuch’. Hahahahaha!
9.32am, May 2, 1970
    @SimonedeBeauvoir
@GermaineGreer Can you believe how immature men are?
10.55am, May 2, 1970
    @MichaelWinner
Calm down, dear, it’s just Twitter.
10.57am, May 2, 1970
    The rise of feminism has had many triumphs. Some parts of the human race are beyond its reach.
GEORGE ORWELL PUBLISHES NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR
    @GeorgeOrwell
In the future, people will be able to monitor our every move, and the cult of personality will rule.
#BigBrother
9.30am, June 8, 1949
    @Twitter
@GeorgeOrwell Interesting idea