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The Soviet Union's 1957 nuclear test series was a group of 16
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 1957. These tests followed the '' 1956 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''
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= ...
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1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
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