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The Soviet Union's 1958 nuclear test series was a group of 36
nuclear test Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detonations are affected by ...
s conducted in 1958. These tests followed the '' 1957 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''
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. ...
'' series.


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