Nuclear tests

596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test. On October 16 1964 - China exploded its first atomic bomb at the Lop Nor test site. It was a uranium 235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. ...more on Wikipedia about "596 (nuclear test)"

Chagan was a Soviet nuclear test during the Soviet atomic bomb project and was the most powerful test in the series: Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy or Project 7, the Soviet equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons. It was an underground test, and was fired on January 15 1965. The site was a dry bed of the Chagan River at the edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and was chosen such that the lip of the crater would dam the river during its high spring flow. The resultant crater had a diameter of 408 meters and was 100 meters deep. A major lake (10,000,000 m3) soon formed behind the 20-35 m high upraised lip, known as Lake Chagan or Lake Balapan ( ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chagan (nuclear test)"

CIRUS (Canadian-Indian-U.S.) reactor. A research reactor at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Trombay near Mumbai Bombay in India. CIRUS was supplied by Canada in 1954, but uses heavy water supplied by the U.S. (hence its name). It is the second oldest reactor in India. It is modeled on the Canadian Chalk River National Research X-perimental NRX reactor. The 40 MWt reactor burns natural uranium fuel, while using heavy water (deuterium) as a moderator. It is a tank reactor type with a core size of 3.14 m(H)x2.67 m (D). It first went critical July 10, 1960. ...more on Wikipedia about "CIRUS reactor"

(Downwinders) A downwinder is a term used to describe people across the United States who were exposed to radioactive fallout from both underground and atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. It has also been used to describe those exposed to radiation through experimentation and uranium mining. ...more on Wikipedia about "Downwinders"

Joe One (or Joe-1; USSR version RDS-1 (Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina; Stalin's Rocket Engine)) was the western name for the first Soviet atomic bomb test, on August 29, 1949 at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The yield was 22 kilotons. At Lavrenty Beria's insistence, the device was a more or less copy of the United States Gadget/ Fat Man design. It was called First Lightning (Первая молния) by the Soviets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe 1"

Joe 4 (USSR version: RDS-4 (Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina; Stalin's Rocket Engine)) was an American nickname for the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon and was on August 12, 1953. It was not a "true" hydrogen bomb—it was similar to a "boosted" fission bomb rather than a a multi-stage, megaton-range fusion weapon. It utilized a scheme in which fission and fusion fuel were "layered", a design known as the Sloika ( Ru: Слойка) named after a type of layer cake) model in the Soviet Union. A similar design was earlier theorized, but never tested, in the USA as the "Alarm Clock". ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe 4"

Artificial radiation belts have been artificially created by the explosion of high-altitude nuclear weapons. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of artificial radiation belts"

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The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992. Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. Ten other tests took place at various locations in the United States, including Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of nuclear tests"

A nuclear test explosion is an experiment involving the detonation of a nuclear weapon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear testing"

The PACER project, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that would involve exploding small H-bombs (in a later proposal, fission bombs) inside an underground cavity. ...more on Wikipedia about "PACER"

Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes, such as activities related to economic development including the creation of canals. During the 1960s and 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union conducted a number of PNEs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peaceful nuclear explosions"

(Pokhran-II) Pokharan-II refers to test explosions of five nuclear devices, three on 11 May and two on 13 May 1998, by India at Pokhran. These nuclear tests resulted into a variety of sanctions against India by a number of major states. On 18th May 1974 India’s first nuclear explosion, code named Smiling Buddha, was conducted. After about a quarter century, on Budhha Jayanti, 11 May 1998, the Shakti has been demonstrated: Shakti is a Sanskrit word which literally means strength, and Shakti is also the name of the Hindu Goddess of strength. Shakti was the codename for Pokharan-II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pokhran-II"

RDS-37 was a Soviet name for their first nuclear test of a "true" hydrogen bomb. ...more on Wikipedia about "RDS-37"

Semey (Семей, sometimes transliterated as Semij or Semei) is a city in north eastern Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia. It was known as Semipalatinsk (Семипалатинск) until 1994; like a number of Kazak cities, the name was changed in the period following Kazakhstan gaining independence in 1991. It is a city in the Shyghys Qazaqstan oblysy. It is located at , around 1000km north of Almaty, and 700km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Semey" shortopedia, it's as simple as that!

The Smiling Buddha was the first test fission explosion by India on May 18, 1974. ...more on Wikipedia about "Smiling Buddha"

A subsidence crater is a hole or depression left on the surface of an area which has had an underground (usually nuclear) explosion. Many such craters are present at the Nevada Test Site, which is no longer in use for nuclear testing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Subsidence crater"

Tsar Bomba ( , literally " Tsar of the bombs"), developed by the Soviet Union, is the largest nuclear explosive ever detonated, and the most powerful weapon ever employed by humans. It was tested on October 30, 1961 over Mityushikha Bay of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic Sea. There is no clear evidence that any examples other than the one tested were ever made. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tsar Bomba"

The Vela Incident (sometimes known as the South Atlantic Flash) was the possible detection of a nuclear weapon test by an American Vela satellite on September 22, 1979. Much of the information about the event is still classified. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vela Incident"

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