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The table in this section summarizes all worldwide nuclear testing (including the two bombs dropped in combat which were not tests). The country names are links to summary articles for each country, which may in turn be used to drill down to test series articles which contain details on every known nuclear explosion and test.
In signing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996, these countries pledged to discontinue all nuclear testing; the treaty has not yet entered into force because of its failure to be ratified by eight countries. Non-signatories India and Pakistan last tested nuclear weapons in 1998.
The last explosion at the site was conducted on October 19, 1989. One of Nazarbayev’s first decisions as president of the Kazakh SSR was to close the Semipalatinsk Test Site and to fully renounce the world’s fourth-largest nuclear arsenal. On August 29, 1991, the Kazakh SSR government closed the site.
Russia has successfully tested an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, while also warning that the country's parliament could revoke its ...
Putin, in charge of the world's largest nuclear power, signed a law last November withdrawing Russia's ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, a move he said was designed ...
The nuclear-armed North last week test-fired what it said was its most advanced and ... That was Kim Jong Un's first weapons test since he was accused by U.S. and Ukrainian officials of sending ...
Afterwards, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was signed and ratified by the major nuclear weapons powers, and the number of worldwide nuclear tests decreased rapidly. [24] India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998, but afterwards only North Korea conducted nuclear tests-- in 2006, 2009, 2013, twice in 2016, and in 2017 .
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 ...