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      • In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the Soviet Union, according to the United Nations. Britain carried out 45 tests, France 210 and China 45. Since the CTBT, 10 nuclear tests have taken place.
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  2. First nuclear test: July 16, 1945. Most recent nuclear test: Sept. 23, 1992. Total tests: 1,030 (815 underground) The United States has conducted more tests than the rest of the world, and was the first and only country to use a nuclear weapon in wartime.

  3. Aug 29, 2023 · According to the Arms Control Association, at least eight countries have carried out a total of 2,056 nuclear tests since 1945. Of those, 507 have been atmospheric explosions, which spread...

  4. Jan 25, 2024 · Date range. 1945–2022. Unit. tests. January 25, 2024. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally. This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data.

  5. This statistic shows the number of nuclear tests carried out by countries worldwide from 1945 until July 2020. A total of 1,030 nuclear tests have been performed by the United States since 1945.

  6. The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests.

  7. This has been done on test sites on land or waters owned, controlled or leased from the owners by one of the eight nuclear nations: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea, or has been done on or over ocean sites far from territorial waters. There have been 2,121 tests done since ...

  8. Nuclear weapons tests have almost stopped. The nuclear weapons states frequently tested their warheads in the past, but tests now have almost ended. The chart shows that they peaked in 1962 at 178 tests, mostly conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union.