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It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful nuclear test (PNE) sites. There are a few non-nuclear sites included, such as the Degelen Omega chemical blast sites, which are intimately involved with nuclear testing. Listed with each is an approximate location and ...
France's nuclear testing series summary Series or years Years covered Tests [Summ 1] Devices fired Devices with unknown yield Peaceful use tests Non-PTBT tests [Summ 2] Yield range [Summ 3] Total yield (kilotons) [Summ 4] Notes Reggane: 1960 4: 4: 4: 1 to 70 78: In Ekker: 1961–1966 13: 13: 4: 0 to 127 286: 1966–1970: 1966–1970 22: 22: 22 ...
After studying Réunion, New Caledonia, and Clipperton Island, General Charles Ailleret, head of the Special Weapons Section, proposed two possible nuclear test sites for France in a January 1957 report: French Algeria in the Sahara Desert, and French Polynesia. Although he recommended against Polynesia because of its distance from France and ...
The Pacific Proving Grounds was the name given by the United States government to a number of sites in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962. The U.S. tested a nuclear weapon (codenamed Able) on Bikini Atoll on June 30, 1946.
Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, President Vladimir Putin's point man for arms control said on Monday after speculation that the Kremlin ...
Worldwide nuclear test with a yield of 1.4 Mt TNT equivalent and more Date (GMT) Yield (megatons) Deployment Country Test site Name or number October 30, 1961: 50: parachute air drop: Soviet Union: Novaya Zemlya: Tsar Bomba, Test #130 December 24, 1962: 24.2: missile warhead: Soviet Union: Novaya Zemlya: Test #219: August 5, 1962: 21.1: air ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia may be paving the way to conduct a nuclear test, a move that would sharply raise tensions with the West and likely prompt other world powers to resume testing for the ...
France carried out a series of 24 nuclear tests from 1971 to 1974 [1] These tests followed the 1966–1970 French nuclear tests series and preceded the 1975–1978 French nuclear tests. France's 1971–1974 series tests and detonations