• Part 1, 1945-1963
• Part 2, 1964-1972
• Part 3, 1973-1992
• Hydrodynamic tests
• Non-nuclear and ambiguous events
• Improved locations (draft)

• ID no.--number in this listing
• Series
• Shot name--name
• Shot code--
  • X--not included in some listings
• Year, month, day (GMT)
• Time (GMT)
• Site--
  • test sites:
    • AK--Amichitka Island, Alaska
    • BK--Bikini Atoll, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Marshall Islands)
    • EN--Enwetak Atoll, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Marshall Islands)
    • JO--Johnston Island
    • LI-CH--Christmas Island, Line Islands (now Kiritimati), Pacific Ocean
    • NARF--Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada
    • NM-A--Alamagordo area, New Mexico
    • NV--Nevada Test Site, Nevada, USA:
      • NV-FF--NTS, Frenchman Flat
      • NV-PM--NTS, Pahute Mesa
      • NV-RM--NTS, Rainier Mesa
      • NV-YF--NTS, Yucca Flat
      • NV-15--NTS, Area 15
      • NV-16--NTS, Area 16
      • NV-18--NTS, Area 18
      • NV-30--NTS, Area 30
  • outside testing areas:
    • -CO--Colorado
    • -JP--Japan (two combat uses)
    • -LA--Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
    • -MS--Mississippi
    • -NM--New Mexico (outside test ranges)
    • -NV--Nevada (outside test ranges)
    • -PAC--Pacific Ocean
    • -SATL--South Atlantic Ocean
• Latitude (° N) and Longitude (° E)
• Location code
• Hole designation--area for Nevada Test Site shots
• Height of burst--negative indicates depth
• Ground zero altitude--0 indicates burst above/below water
• Ground zero code
• Type of detonation--
  • A--atmospheric
    • A-AD--airdrop
    • A-B--balloon
    • A-R--rocket or missile
  • AH--atmospheric, high altitude (between 30 km and 80 km)
    • AH-R--rocket or missile
  • AS--atmospheric, surface
    • AS-T--tower
  • AW--atmospheric, water surface
    • AW-BG--barge
  • AX--space (altitude over 80 km)
    • AX-R--rocket or missile
  • CR--cratering burst (shallow subsurface)
  • UG--underground
    • UG-S--shaft
    • UG-T--tunnel
    • UG-TC--cavity in tunnel
  • UW--underwater
• Purpose--
  • C--combat use, strategic warfare
  • PR--peaceful research
  • SE--safety experiment
  • ST--safety/transport experiment
  • VU--Vela uniform test
  • WE--weapons effects
  • WR--nuclear weapons related
• Yield, minimum and maximum--in kt, announced figures
• Yield, estimated--in kt, reported figures from unofficial sources
• Yield notes
• Yield, preferred value
• Magnitude Mb--seismic
• Crater--diameter in meters
• Vented--radioactivity release in curies
• Device
  • BF--boosted fission
  • FZ--fizzile
  • IC--implosion, composite core
  • IP--implosion, plutonium core
  • IU--implosion, uranium core
  • LI--linear implosion, plutonium core
  • ND--no detonation
  • TC--thermonuclear, multistage, "clean" (less than 30% fission yield)
  • TD--thermonuclear, multistage, "dirty" (more than 60% fission yield)
  • TN--thermonuclear, multistage (number indicates % fission)
• Warhead
• Sponsor
• Reported
• Notes
• Sources--see list below

Sources for United States test list:

• 1 = Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Dec. 2000, United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 through September 1992, U.S. DOE (Las Vegas, NV), on line at Nevada Site Office [http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/publications/historyreports/pdfs/DOENV209_REV15.pdf].
• 2 = 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].
• 3 = Hansen, Chuck, 1995, The Swords of Armageddon, Vol. 8, Chukelea Publ. (Sunnyvale, CA).
• 4 = Cochran, Thomas B., William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, and Milton M. Hoenig, 1987, Nuclear Weapons Databook, Vol. 2: U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production, Ballinger Publ. Co. (Cambridge, MA).
• 5 = Sandia National Laboratories, July 1994, "Official list of underground nuclear explosions," on line at Nuclear Weapon Archive [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Nevada.html].
• 6 = Bolt, Bruce A., 1976, Nuclear Explosions and Earthquakes: The Parted Veil, W.H. Freeman and Co. (San Francisco, CA).
• 7 = Norris, Robert Standish, and Thomas B. Cochran, 1 Feb. 1994, "United States nuclear tests, July 1945 to 31 December 1992," Nuclear Weapons Databook Working Paper NWD 94-1, Natural Resources Defense Council (Washington, DC).
• 8 = DOE Nevada Operations Office, Aug. 1996, Radiological Effluents Released from U.S. Continental Tests 1961 Through 1992, DOE/NV-317 Rev. 1, Nevada Operations Office (Las Vegas, NV), on line at Nevada Site Office [http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/publications/historyreports/pdfs/nv-317.pdf].
• 9 = Norris, Robert S., Andrew S. Burrows, and Richard W. Fieldhouse, 1994, Nuclear Weapons Databook, Vol. 5: British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons, Westview Press (Boulder, CO).
• 10 = Springer, Donald L., Gayle A. Pawloski, Janet L. Ricca, Robert F. Rohrer, and David K. Smith, 2002, "Seismic source summary for all U.S. below-surface nuclear explosions," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 92:1806-1840.
• 11 = Underground Test Area Subproject, 1996, "Underground Test Area Subproject Phase 1 Data Analysis Task Vol. VII: Tritium Transport Model Documentation Package," DOE Nevada Operations Office (Las Vegas, NV).
• a = Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Argus, 1958, Report DNA6039F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• b = Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Crossroads, 1946, Report DNA6032F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• c = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1983, Operation Dominic I, 1962, Report DNA6040F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• d = Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Greenhouse, 1951, Report DNA6043F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• e = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1982, Operation Hardtack I, 1958, Report DNA6038F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• f = Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Hardtack II, 1958, Report DNA6026F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• g = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1981, Plumbbob Series, 1957, Report DNA6005F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• h = Defense Nuclear Agency, Safety Experiments, November 1955-March 1958, Report DNA6030F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• i = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1983, Operation Sandstone, 1948, Report DNA6033F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• j = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1981, Shot Smoky: A Test of the Plumbbob Series, 31 August 1957, Report DNA6004F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• k = Defense Nuclear Agency, ?, Operation Teapot, 1955, Report DNA6009F, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• m = SMDC, 2004, "Nuclear explosion database," SMDC Monitoring Research Program, on line, [http://www.rdss.info/index_ie.html].
• n = Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1981, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings, Basic Books (New York, NY).
• p = SMDC, 2004, "Nuclear explosion database," SMDC Monitoring Research Program, on line, [http://www.rdss.info/index_ie.html].
• q = Hechanova, Anthony E., and James E. O'Donnell, 25 Sept. 1998, "Estimates of yield for nuclear tests impacting the groundwater at the Nevada Test Site," Nuclear Science and Technology Division, on line [http://nstg.nevada.edu/web_pubs/yield.pdf].
• r = Defense Nuclear Agency, 1982, Operation Ranger: Shots Able, Baker, Easy, Baker-2, Fox, 25 January-6 February 1951, Department of Defense (Washington, DC).
• s = Griggs, D. T., and Frank Press, 1961, "Probing the earth with nuclear explosions," Journal of Geophysical Research, 66(1):237-258.
• aa = Thorn, Robert N., and Donald R. Westervelt, Feb. 1987, "Hydronuclear Experiments," LANL Report LA-10902-MS, on line at Federation of American Scientists [http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00090266.pdf].
• ab = Norris, Robert S., and William M. Arkin, 1995, "NRDC Nuclear Notebook: Known nuclear tests worldwide, 1945-1994," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 51:70-71, on line at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=mj95norris].
• ac = Medalia, Jonathan, 11 March 2005, "Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty," CRS Issue Brief IB92099, on line at U.S. Department of State [http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/44946.pdf].
• ad = Conrad, David C., July/Aug. 2000, "Underground explosions are music to their ears," Science and Technology Review, on line at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [http://www.llnl.gov/str/Conrad.html].
• ae = DOE, Feb. 2003, "Nevada Test Site: U1a Complex subcritical experiments," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/dirpdfs/DOENV708_REV1_U1a.pdf].
• af = compiler's estimates based on images in Google Earth, 2007, on line [http://maps.google.com/].
• ag = DOE, Sept. 2004, "Subcritical experiments at the U1a facility," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/FactSheets/DOENV_1016.pdf].
• ah = DOE, Oct. 2003, "NNSA scientists conduct 20th subcritical experiment," SiteLines, 94:2, on line at DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/sitelines/sl094.pdf].
• ai = NNSA, 30 Aug. 2006, "Unicorn subcritical experiment conducted at NTS," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/newsreleases/UnicornSubcriticalTest_08302006.pdf].
• aj = DOE, July 2002, "Oboe plays again," SiteLines, 81:1-2, on line at DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/sitelines/sl081.pdf].
• ak = NNSA, 19 Sept. 2003, "National Nuclear Security Administration scientists conduct subcritical experiment at Nevada Test Site," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/newsreleases/Piano_NR09192003.pdf].
• al = NNSA, 23 May 2004, "National Nuclear Security Administration scientists to conduct Armando subcritical experiment," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/newsreleases/Armando_NR05232004.pdf].
• am = NNSA, 26 Sept. 2002, "National Nuclear Security Administration scientists conduct subcritical experiment at Nevada Test Site," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/newsreleases/ROCCO_NR09262002.pdf].
• an = NNSA, 29 Aug. 2002, "National Nuclear Security Administration scientists conduct successful subcritical experiment at Nevada Test Site," on line, DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/newsreleases/Mario_NR08292002.pdf].
• ao = DOE, June/July 2005, "Unicorn subcritical experiment completes key milestone," SiteLines, 107:4, on line at DOE Nevada [http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/sitelines/sl107.pdf].
• ap = Hoerlin, Herman, Oct. 1976, United States High-Altitude Test Experiences: A Review Emphasizing the Impact on the Environment, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM).
• aq = Bechtel Nevada, Dec. 1999, "A Series of Low-Altitude Aerial Radiological Surveys of Selected Regions within Areas 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 18, and 25 at the Nevada Test Site," DOE/NV/11718-362, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (Springfield, VA).
• ar = EG&G Energy Measurements, Aug. 1995, "An In Situ Survey of Clean Slate 1, 2, and 3," EGG 11265-1147 UC-702, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
• as = Nevada Environmental Restoration Project, May 1996, "Double Tracks Test Site Characterization Report," DOE/NV-484 UC-700, U.S. Dept. of Energy Nevada Operations Office (Las Vegas, NV).
• at = Bechtel Nevada, Oct. 1996, "An Aerial Radiological Survey of Frenchman Flat at the Nevada Test Site," DOE/NV/11718-012 UC-702, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
• au = Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, "FFACO description of facilities," on line, NDEP [http://ndep.nv.gov/boff/ffco1.htm].
• av = (Amchitka)