United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992; DOE/NV--209-REV 14, December 1994
Las Vegas, NV: US DOE/Nevada Operations, 1994. Second Edition [Stated] [printed as the DSWA printing facility]. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 4 unpaginated stiff card dividers, viii, 59 37, pages. Wraps. Front cover Illustration (color). Tables. Glossary. The dividers are titled: Glossary, Total Tests. Tests--Chronologically, and Detonations-Alphabetically. This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States from July 1945 through September 1992. It does not list the nuclear weapons that the U.S. exploded over Japan. The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed between 1945 and 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and off Kiribati Island in the Pacific, plus three in the Atlantic Ocean. Ten other tests took place at various locations in the United States, including Alaska, Nevada other than the NNSS/NTS, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico. This supersedes DOE/NV-209 (Rev. 13) dated May 1993. This document is an important resource for those interested in tracing and understanding the declassification decisions by the Departments of Energy and Defense. It can be used in comparison with prior and subsequent revisions and variations and additions of information can be identified. Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them. Testing nuclear weapons can yield information about how the weapons work, as well as how the weapons behave under various conditions and how personnel, structures, and equipment behave when subjected to nuclear explosions. Nuclear testing has often been used as an indicator of scientific and military strength, and many tests have been overtly political in their intention; most nuclear weapons states publicly declared their nuclear status by means of a nuclear test. The first nuclear device was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. The first thermonuclear weapon technology test of engineer device, codenamed "Ivy Mike", was tested at the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952 (local date), also by the United States. The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the "Tsar Bomba" of the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961, with the largest yield ever seen, an estimated 50–58 megatons. In 1963, three (UK, US, Soviet Union) of the four nuclear states and many non-nuclear states signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, pledging to refrain from testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underwater, or in outer space. The treaty permitted underground nuclear testing. France continued atmospheric testing until 1974, and China continued until 1980. Neither has signed the treaty. Underground tests in the United States continued until 1992 (its last nuclear test), the Soviet Union until 1990, the United Kingdom until 1991, and both China and France until 1996. North Korea conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2017. The most recent confirmed nuclear test occurred in September 2017 in North Korea. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Nuclear Tests, Nevada Test Site, Underground Nuclear, Nuclear Detonation, Radiological, Seismic, Source Data, Atomic Bomb, Nevada Operations, Nuclear Weapons, Thermonuclear, Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada Field
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