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The Soviet Union's 1969 nuclear test series was a group of 19
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s conducted in 1969. 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 ''
1968 Soviet nuclear tests The Soviet Union's 1968 nuclear test series was a group of 17 nuclear tests conducted in 1968. 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 n ...
'' series and preceded the '' 1970 Soviet nuclear tests'' series.


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1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
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