Database of nuclear tests, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and unknown: introduction
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last modified 9 October 2006
Column data:
- ID number--sequential number in listing
- Shot name--Chinese name
- Shot code--
- S--salvo test, first listed detonation
- SS--salvo test, additional detonations
- ?--may not have occurred
- Year, month, day (GMT)
- Time (GMT)
- Site--
- CHA--Chagai Hills, Pakistan
- POK--Pokoran, India
- -SATL--South Atlantic Ocean
- Latitude (° N) and Longitude (° E)
- Location code
- Hole designation--shaft or tunnel number
- Height of burst--negative indicates depth
- Ground zero altitude
- Ground zero code
- Type of detonation--
- A--atmospheric
- UG--underground
- Purpose--
- WR--nuclear weapons related
- Yield, minimum and maximum--in kt, Western figures
- Yield, estimated--in kt, reported figures from unofficial or Western sources
- Yield notes
- Yield, preferred value
- Magnitude Mb--seismic
- Crater--diameter in meters
- Vented--radioactivity release in curies
- Device
- ER--enhanced radiation
- FZ--fizzile
- IC--implosion, composite core
- IP--implosion, plutonium core
- IU--implosion, uranium core
- TN--thermonuclear, multistage (number indicates % fission)
- Warhead
- Sponsor
- Reported
- Notes
- Sources--see list below
Sources for PRC test list:
- 1 = Yang, Xiaoping, Robert North, and Carl Romney, Aug. 2000, "CMR Nuclear Explosion Database (Revision 3)," on line, SMDC Monitoring Research [http://www.rdss.info/database/nucex/report/explosion.pdf].
- 2 = Sublette, Carey, Nuclear Weapon Archives, on line [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaRealYields.html].
- 3 = Sublette, Carey, Nuclear Weapon Archives, on line [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaShakti.html].
- 4 = Sublette, Carey, Nuclear Weapon Archives, on line [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakTests.html].
- 5 = on line [http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jun/30bomb3.htm].
- 6 = Albright, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on line [http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=ja98albright].
- 7 = Norris, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, on line [http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=nd98norris].
- 8 = Sublette, Carey, Nuclear Weapon Archives, on line [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Safrica/Vela.html].
- 9 = USGS, 9 Oct. 2006, "Magnitude 4.2-North Korea," on line, USGS Earthquake Hazards Program [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/ustqab.php].
© 2005, 2006 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 9 October 2006.
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