nuclear weapons test
experiment carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons
fizzle
detonation of a nuclear device which grossly fails to produce its expected yield
Upshot-Knothole Annie
1953 U.S. nuclear test
Operation Grim
1961 nuclear weapons test
Able
U.S. nuclear test, part of Operation Crossroads
Upshot-Knothole Harry
1953 American nuclear weapons test
Hardtack Teak
1958 U.S. nuclear test
Aspen
1958 U.S. nuclear test
Baker
1946 U.S. nuclear test
Upshot-Knothole Climax
1953 U.S. nuclear test
Oak
1958 U.S. nuclear test
X-Ray
1948 U.S. nuclear test
Operation Hurricane
test of the first UK atomic device on 3 October 1952, in which a plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia
Blackfoot
1956 U.S. nuclear test
Castle Romeo
1954 codename for one of the first thermonuclear bomb tests
high-altitude nuclear explosion
nuclear detonations in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere
Grapple X
1957 nuclear weapons test
Umbrella
1958 U.S. nuclear test
Quince
1958 U.S. nuclear test
Starfish Prime
1962 U.S. nuclear test
Castle Bravo
first United States test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb known as the Shrimp
Frigate Bird
1962 U.S. nuclear test
Upshot-Knothole Grable
1953 U.S. test of a nuclear artillery weapon
Item
1951 nuclear test
Upshot-Knothole Simon
1953 U.S. nuclear test
Vela incident
1979 unidentified double flash of light
Buster-Jangle Baker
1951 U.S. nuclear test
Castle Nectar
1954 U.S. nuclear test
Trinity
1945 first detonation of a nuclear weapon
French nuclear tests
Nuclear weapons tests carried out by France in Algeria and French Polynesia from 1960 to 1996
peaceful nuclear explosion
nuclear explosion conducted for non-military purposes
Green Run
1949 nuclear test
Upshot-Knothole Encore
1953 nuclear weapons test
Boltzmann
1957 U.S. nuclear test
underground nuclear weapons test
test detonation of nuclear weapons that is performed underground
Ivy King
largest pure-fission US nuclear bomb test
Project Shoal
1963 U.S. nuclear test