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List Of Nuclear Weapons Tests Of The Soviet Union
The nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union were performed between 1949 and 1990 as part of the nuclear arms race. The Soviet Union conducted 715 nuclear tests using 969 total devices by official count, including 219 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests and 124 peaceful use tests. Official numbers and those in the table differ due to eleven tests, all fizzles, cited in other references and the one bomb left in its shaft when the Russians abandoned the Semipalatinsk site to Kazakhstan. Most of the tests took place at the Southern Test Site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan and the Northern Test Site at Novaya Zemlya. Other tests took place at various locations within the Soviet Union, including now-independent Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Turkmenistan. List See also * List of nuclear weapons tests Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military, scientific or tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. During this same period, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons, though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. World War II The first nuclear weapon was created by the United States of America during the Second World War and was developed to be used against the Axis powers. Scientists of the Soviet Union were aware of the potential of nuclear weapons and had also been conducting research in the field. The Soviet Union was not informed officially of the Manhattan Project until Stalin was briefed at the Potsdam Conference on July 24, 1945, by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, eight days after the first successful test of a nuclear weapon. Despite their wartime military alliance, the United States and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949–51 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1949–1951 nuclear test series was a group of 3 nuclear tests conducted in 1949–1951. These tests preceded the ''1953 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{DEFAULTSORT:1949-51 Soviet nuclear tests Soviet nuclear weapons testing, 1949-1951 1949 in the Soviet Union 1951 in the Soviet Union 1949 in military history 1951 in military history Explosions in 1949 Explosions in 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1967 nuclear test series was a group of 17 nuclear tests conducted in 1967. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the '' 1966 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the '' 1968 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.goog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1966 nuclear test series was a group of 18 nuclear tests conducted in 1966. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the 1965 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1967 Soviet nuclear tests series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1965 nuclear test series was a group of 14 nuclear tests conducted in 1965. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the '' 1964 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1966 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.googl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1964 nuclear test series was a group of 9 nuclear tests conducted in 1964. These tests followed the '' 1962 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1965 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&lpg=PA453, accessdate=January 9, 2014 {{cite book, last1=Cochran, first1=Thomas B., last2=Arkin, first2=William M., first3=Robert S., last3=Norris, first4=Jeffrey I., last4=Sands, title=Nuclear Weapons Databook Vol. IV: Soviet Nuclear Weapons, publisher=Harper and Row, location=New York, NY {{cite journal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1962 nuclear test series was a group of 78 nuclear tests conducted in 1962. These tests followed the ''Soviet Project K nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1964 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite techreport, last1=Yang, first1=Xiaoping, first2=Robert, last2=North, first3=Carl, last3=Romney, date=August 2000, title=CMR Nuclear Explosion Database (Revision 3), publisher=SMDC Monitoring Research {{cite book , publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&pg=PA453, accessdate=9 January 2014 {{cite book, last1=Cochran, first1=Thomas B., last2=Arkin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Project K Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's K project nuclear test series was a group of five nuclear tests conducted in 1961–1962. These tests followed the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1962 Soviet nuclear tests series. The K project nuclear testing series were all high altitude tests fired by missiles from the Kapustin Yar launch site in Russia across central Kazakhstan toward the Sary Shagan test range (see map below). Two of the tests were 1.2 kiloton warheads tested in 1961. The remaining three tests were of 300 kiloton warheads in 1962. Electromagnetic pulse The worst effects of a Soviet high altitude test were from the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear test on 22 October 1962 (during the Cuban Missile Crisis). In that Operation K high altitude test, a 300 kiloton missile-warhead detonated west of Jezkazgan (also called Dzhezkazgan or Zhezqazghan) at an altitude of . The Soviet scientists instrumented a section of telephone line in the area that they expected to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1961 nuclear test series was a group of 57 nuclear tests conducted in 1961. These tests followed the '' 1958 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''Soviet Project K nuclear tests'' series. Notes References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&pg=PA453, accessdate=9 January 2014 {{cite book, last1=Cochran, first1=Thomas B., last2=Arkin, first2=William M., first3=Robert S., last3=Norris, first4=Jeffrey I., last4=Sands, title=Nuclear Weapons Databook Vol. IV: Soviet Nuclear Weapons, publisher=Harper and Row, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1958 nuclear test series was a group of 36 nuclear tests conducted in 1958. These tests followed the '' 1957 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1961 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1996, title=USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990, location=Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&pg=PA453, accessdate=January 9, 2014 {{cite tech report, title=Nuclear explosions in the USSR: The North Test Site reference material, version 4, date=December 1, 2004, publisher=IAEA Dept. of Nuclear Safety and Security, url=http://www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/rw/waste-safety/north-test-site-final.pdf, accessdate=De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1957 nuclear test series was a group of 16 nuclear tests conducted in 1957. These tests followed the '' 1956 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1958 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1998, title=USSR Nuclear Tests, Hydronuclear Experiments, Plutonium Inventory, location=Sarov, Russia {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&lpg=PA453&ots=vJQN2EUtRk&f=false, accessdate=9 January 2014 {{cite techreport, publisher=Central Intelligence Agency, series=National Intelligence Estimate 11-2A-62, url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000843187.pdf, title=Soviet Atomic Energy Program, accessdate=20 August 2012, date=16 May 1962 {{cite techreport, last1=Yang, first1=Xiaoping, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Soviet Nuclear Tests
The Soviet Union's 1956 nuclear test series was a group of 9 nuclear tests conducted in 1956. These tests followed the '' 1955 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1957 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. Notes References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book, publisher=RFNC-VNIIEF, year=1998, title=USSR Nuclear Tests, Hydronuclear Experiments, Plutonium Inventory, location=Sarov, Russia {{cite book, editor-last=Podvig, editor-first=Pavel, year=2001, title=Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, publisher=MIT Press, location=Cambridge, MA, isbn=9780262661812, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPRVbYDc-7kC&pg=PA453, accessdate=January 9, 2014 {{cite tech report, publisher=Central Intelligence Agency, series=National Intelligence Estimate 11-2A-62, url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000843187.pdf, title=Soviet Atomic Energy Program, accessdate=August 12, 2014, date=May 16, 1962 {{cite tech report, last1=Yang, first1=Xi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
