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| x 2006 North Korean nuclear test |
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Oct 9, 2006 | Hwadae test site |
The 2006 North Korean nuclear test was the detonation of a nuclear device conducted on October 9, 2006 by North Korea.
North Korea announced its intention to conduct a test on October 3, six days prior, and in doing so became the first nation to...
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| x Chagan | Jan 15, 1965 | Lake Chagan |
Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965.
Chagan was the first and largest of the 124 detonations in the Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program, designed to produce...
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May 18, 1974 | Pokhran |
Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on...
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Operation Storax | Jul 6, 1962 | Nevada Test Site |
Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on 6 July 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and...
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| x 596 | Oct 16, 1964 | Lop Nur |
596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the...
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| x Trinity test |
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Jul 16, 1945 | White Sands Missile Range |
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White...
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| x Agathe | Jewel series | Nov 21, 1961 | Mount Hoggar |
Agathe (aka Agate) was the name of the first French nuclear underground test. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the Hoggar mount (near In Ekker) of the then French Sahara desert on November 21, 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62).
Agathe was...
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Aug 24, 1968 | Fangataufa Atoll |
Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United...
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| x Reactor grade plutonium nuclear test | 1962 | Nevada Test Site |
Reactor-grade plutonium is found in spent nuclear fuel that a nuclear reactor has irradiated (burnup) for years instead of weeks or months, leading to transmutation of much of the fissile, relatively long half-life isotope Pu into other isotopes of...
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| x Tsar Bomba | Oct 30, 1961 | Novaya Zemlya |
Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба) is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. It was also referred to as Kuz'kina Mat' (Russian: Кузькина мать, Kuzka's mother), potentially referring to Nikita...
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