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North Korea's nuclear testing series summary Series or years Years covered Tests Devices fired Devices with unknown yield Peaceful use tests Non-PTBT tests Yield range Total yield (kilotons) Notes nuclear tests: 2006–2017 6: 6: 0.7–250 197.8: Totals: 2006-Oct-9 to 2017-Sep-3 6 6 0.7–250
- 2006–2017
- Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, North Korea
Apr 20, 2017 · North Korean Missile Launches & Nuclear Tests: 1984-Present. April 20, 2017. Missile Defense Project. Updated April 25, 2023. This database provides a chronology of North Korean missile launches and nuclear detonations. These entries include full flight tests of ballistic and cruise missiles, both successful and unsuccessful, and nuclear tests.
DateMissile TypeNumber Launched/yieldMore InfoApr-13-2023Hwasong-18 (ICBM)1Mar-27-2023KN-23 (SRBM)2Mar-22-2023Cruise Missile4Mar-19-2023KN-23 (silo variant)1This 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 ...
Jun 28, 2022 · With each test, North Korea’s nuclear explosions have grown in power. The first explosion in 2006 was a plutonium-fueled atomic bomb with a yield equivalent to two kilotons of TNT, an energy ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the demilitarized zone in 2019. In the 1990s, the United States negotiated the Agreed Framework to freeze North Korea's nuclear weapons program while pursuing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
- September 3, 2017
- October 9, 2006
Sep 8, 2022 · North Korea has made significant advances over the past two decades in developing a nuclear weapons arsenal. It has detonated six nuclear devices—one with a yield of well over 100 kilotons—and test-flown a variety of new ballistic missiles, several of which may be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to targets in Northeast Asia and potentially in the United States and Europe.
Apr 10, 2023 · For over three decades, the Institute has charted the growth in North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, estimating in the 1990s it had at most one or two nuclear weapons, 3 five to 13 plutonium-based weapons in 2005, 4 30 to 55 weapons at the end of 2017 composed of either plutonium or weapon-grade uranium, 5 and today, as will be discussed below ...
