Nuclear tests--databases and other material

Nuclear Tests--Databases and Other Material

Note: some pages in this section are under construction.

Summary and overview pages
These pages--when complete--will include cumulative statistics on nuclear testing, maps of test locations, and summary of testing practices.

Worldwide

United States
USSR/Russia
United Kingdom
France
China-PRC
India, Pakistan, and other

Database of nuclear tests, short version
For more casual users, this list includes nuclear tests with name, date and time to the nearest minute, test site, latitude and longitude to the nearest 0.01°, height of burst, ground zero altitude, yield information, purpose, and warhead.

USA nuclear tests
USSR nuclear tests
UK/FR/PRC/other nuclear tests

Database of nuclear tests, full version
This is the complete version. In addition to extended data on nuclear tests, it includes lists of hydronuclear (subcritical) tests and lists of non-nuclear or ambiguous events (events erroneously identified as nuclear tests, events which are not established as nuclear tests, large conventional explosions, and related non-nuclear events such as plutonium dispersion tests).

United States:

Introduction
Part 1, 1945-1963
Part 2, 1964-1972
Part 3, 1973-1992
Hydronuclear tests
Non-nuclear and ambiguous events
improved locations (draft)

USSR/Russia:

Introduction
Part 1, 1949-1963
Part 2, 1964-1978
Part 3, 1979-1990
Hydronuclear tests
Non-nuclear and ambiguous events

United Kingdom:

Introduction
Nuclear tests
Hydronuclear tests
Non-nuclear and ambiguous events

France:

Introduction
Nuclear tests
Non-nuclear and ambiguous events

PRC China:

Introduction
Nuclear tests

India, Pakistan, North Korea, and unknown:

Introduction
Nuclear tests

Chronological Listing of Above Ground Nuclear Detonations:

Explanation and summary
1945-1955
1956-1957
1958-1959
1960-1961
1962
1963-2005

Assorted material:

High-altitude nuclear explosions

Multimegaton tests: the largest nuclear tests

Nuclear tests: height/depth of burst vs. yield

Nuclear weapon milestones, part 1-B

Nuclear tests resulting in acute casualties:

Castle Bravo nuclear test, 1954 (1 fatality, 93+ injuries)
Totsk nuclear test, 1954 (unknown number of injuries)
RDS-37 nuclear test, 1955 (2 fatalities, 6 injuries)
Tsar Bomba nuclear test, 1961 (1 injury)
Bluegill nuclear test, 1962 (2 injuries)
Novaya Zemlya nuclear test, 1969 (unknown number of injuries)
Midas Myth/Milagro nuclear test, 1984 (1 fatality, 14 injuries)

Combat uses of nuclear weapons:

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