1977 Soviet Nuclear Tests

The Soviet Union's 1977 nuclear test series was a group of 24 nuclear tests conducted in 1977. 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 '' 1976 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''1978 Soviet nuclear tests'' series.

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1977
1977 in the Soviet Union
1977 in military history
Explosions in 1977