Tested on 30 october 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi stage thermonuclear weapon designs it. Tsar bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. The soviet rds 220 hydrogen bomb code name ivan or vanya known to the western nations as tsar bomba russian.
Atmospheric testing designates explosions that take place in the atmosphere generally these have occurred as devices detonated on towers balloons barges islands or dropped from airplanes and also those only buried far enough to intentionally create a surface breaking. Nuclear weapons tests have historically been divided into four categories reflecting the medium or location of the test. Most of the tests took place at the nevada test site nnss nts and the pacific proving grounds in the marshall islands and off kiritimati island in.
The nuclear weapons tests of the united states were performed between 1945 and 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race the united states conducted around 1 054 nuclear tests by official count including 216 atmospheric underwater and space tests. The united states the soviet union united kingdom france china india. This has been done on test sites on land or waters owned controlled or leased from the owners by one of the eight nuclear nations.
Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military scientific or technological goal. With the exception of north korea there has been a longterm moratorium on nuclear weapons tests and some arms control experts worry a us test could ignite a new era of testing around the world. Though this has not yet been enforced the last tests by the united states the united kingdom and russia were.
In 1996 countries with nuclear capability signed the comprehensive test ban treaty. Japanese artist isao hashimoto has created a beautiful undeniably scary time lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998 beginning with the manhattan. 132 45547 world war ii combat.
World war ii combat zone 34 23 40 n 132 27 20 e 34 39438 n 132 45547 e 34 39438. The trinity nuclear site was originally private property taken over by the army to test the plutonium implosion weapon the first nuclear explosion on earth. Nukemap is a mapping mash up that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
