<Li> June 14: The United States lays the keel for the world's first nuclear - powered submarine, USS Nautilus . </Li> <Li> June 30: The Marshall Plan ends, with European industrial output now well above that of 1948 . </Li> <Li> July 23: Gamal Abdel Nasser heads a coup against King Farouk of Egypt . </Li> <Li> October 2: The United Kingdom successfully tests its atomic bomb in Operation Hurricane . The test makes the UK the world's third nuclear power . </Li>

Major events of the cold war in europe