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Aug 4, 2023 · The Nuclear Testing Tally. Contacts: Daryl Kimball, Executive Director, (202) 463-8270 x107. Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, at least eight nations have detonated over 2,000 nuclear tests at dozens of test sites, including Lop Nor in China, the atolls of the Pacific, Nevada, and Algeria where France conducted its first ...
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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 ...
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Nuclear Testing Chronology. Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, at least eight nations have detonated 2,056 nuclear test explosions at dozens of test sites, including Lop Nor in China, the atolls of the Pacific, Nevada, Algeria where France conducted its first nuclear device, western Australia where the U.K. exploded ...
Chronologically (370KB)Alphabetically (259KB)Glossary Total Tests by Calendar Year, Location, Purpose, and Type. This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conduct ed by the United States from July 1945 through September 1992. Several tes ts conducted during Operation Dominic ...
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Aug 29, 2023 · The United States has conducted just over half of all nuclear tests, with 1,030 tests between 1945 and 1992. The Soviet Union carried out the second highest number of nuclear tests at 715 tests ...
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. [1] [notes 1] Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving ...
than one thousand tests that have taken place since June 30, 1946. The nuclear weapon dropped August 5, 1945, from a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber and detonated over Hiroshima, Japan had an energy yield equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of TNT. The one exploded in similar fashion August 9, 1945 over Nagasaki, Japan had a yield of 21,000 tons ...
