Nuclear tests--databases and other material (original) (raw)

Note: some pages in this section are under construction.

Summary and overview pages These pages--when complete--will include cumulative statistics on nuclear testing, maps of test locations, and summary of testing practices.	Worldwide United States USSR/Russia United KingdomFranceChina-PRC India, Pakistan, and other

Database of nuclear tests, short version For more casual users, this list includes nuclear tests with name, date and time to the nearest minute, test site, latitude and longitude to the nearest 0.01°, height of burst, ground zero altitude, yield information, purpose, and warhead.	USA nuclear tests USSR nuclear tests UK/FR/PRC/other nuclear tests hydronuclear/subcritical tests
Google Earth .kml database of worldwide nuclear tests Current version 2.8, updated 2 July 2009, includes locations for 2,388 nuclear detonations (529 above-ground) and 257 known zero-yield events; nuclear test site boundaries; and some craters from nuclear tests.

Database of nuclear tests, full version This is the complete version. In addition to extended data on nuclear tests, it includes lists of hydronuclear (subcritical) tests and lists of non-nuclear or ambiguous events (events erroneously identified as nuclear tests, events which are not established as nuclear tests, large conventional explosions, and related non-nuclear events such as plutonium dispersion tests).

United States: Introduction Part 1, 1945-1963 Part 2, 1964-1972 Part 3, 1973-1992 Hydronuclear tests Non-nuclear and ambiguous events improved locations (draft) USSR/Russia: Introduction Part 1, 1949-1963 Part 2, 1964-1978 Part 3, 1979-1990 Hydronuclear tests Non-nuclear and ambiguous events United Kingdom: Introduction Nuclear tests Hydronuclear tests Non-nuclear and ambiguous events France: Introduction Nuclear tests Non-nuclear and ambiguous events PRC China: Introduction Nuclear tests Hydronuclear tests India, Pakistan, North Korea, and unknown: Introduction Nuclear tests

Chronological Listing of Above Ground Nuclear Detonations:

*** Explanation and summary** *** 1945-1955** *** 1956-1957** *** 1958-1959** *** 1960-1961** *** 1962** *** 1963-2005**

Assorted material:

High-altitude nuclear explosions

Multimegaton tests: the largest nuclear tests

Nuclear tests: height/depth of burst vs. yield

Nuclear weapon milestones, part 1-B

Nuclear tests resulting in acute casualties:

Castle Bravo nuclear test, 1954 (1 fatality, 93+ injuries)
Totsk nuclear test, 1954 (unknown number of injuries)
RDS-37 nuclear test, 1955 (2 fatalities, 6 injuries)
Tsar Bomba nuclear test, 1961 (1 injury)
Bluegill nuclear test, 1962 (2 injuries)
Novaya Zemlya nuclear test, 1969 (unknown number of injuries)
Semipalatinsk nuclear test, 1974 (100 injuries)
Midas Myth/Milagro nuclear test, 1984 (1 fatality, 14 injuries) Combat uses of nuclear weapons:
Hiroshima atomic bombing, 1945
Nagasaki atomic bombing, 1945

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