The Soviet Union's 1966 nuclear test series was a group of 18

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 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 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 n ...

series.

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