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The People's Republic of China conducted 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, all conducted at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang) 596 First test – October 16, 1964; Film is now available of 1966 tests here at time 09:00 [24] and another test later in this film. Test No. 6, First hydrogen bomb test – June 17, 1967
In a series of calls with Western military leaders over the weekend, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned about a supposed Ukrainian "dirty bomb" and once more raised the prospects of ...
The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ready to resume nuclear tests "at any moment" if Moscow gave the order, in rare comments likely to fuel ...
The Russian Defense Ministry claims it has successfully test-launched the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, the latest addition to weapons that can deploy its nuclear arsenal.
Test with "energy budget". Competition between UCRL and LASL over budget allocation was high. Project 57: 1957 1: 1: 1: 0 0: The first safety test, asking whether an improperly ignited bomb (as in a plane crash) would cause a nuclear blast. Plumbbob: 1957 29: 29: 25: 0 to 74 345: Included the largest atmospheric test in CONUS. Project 58+58A ...
Nuclear weapons testing did not produce scenarios like nuclear winter as a result of a scenario of a concentrated number of nuclear explosions in a nuclear holocaust, but the thousands of tests, hundreds being atmospheric, did nevertheless produce a global fallout that peaked in 1963 (the bomb pulse), reaching levels of about 0.15 mSv per year ...
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said the missile, which flew about 800 kilometers (500 miles), was tipped with a mock nuclear warhead. It described the test as successful, saying ...
The second test, King, fired the highest-yield (500 kilotons) [7] nuclear fission (A-bomb) weapon to date using only nuclear fission (no fusion nor fusion boosting). This test used an unretarded free-fall bomb from a B-36 bomber. The bomber suffered minor heat and blast damage and safely returned to base.