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The Soviet Union's 1984 nuclear test series [1] was a group of 29 nuclear tests conducted in 1984. These tests [ note 1 ] followed the 1983 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1985 Soviet nuclear tests series.
The worst effects of a Soviet high altitude test were from the electromagnetic pulse of the nuclear test on 22 October 1962 (during the Cuban Missile Crisis).In that Operation K high altitude test, a 300 kiloton missile-warhead detonated west of Jezkazgan (also called Dzhezkazgan or Zhezqazghan) at an altitude of 290 km (180 mi).
Hardtack Teak, 1958 Frame of the Starfish Prime nuclear test. High-altitude nuclear explosions are the result of nuclear weapons testing within the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and in outer space. Several such tests were performed at high altitudes by the United States and the Soviet Union between 1958 and 1962.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The Soviet Union's 1949–1951 nuclear test series was a group of 3 nuclear tests conducted in 1949–1951.
The operation was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov and initiated by the Soviet Ministry of Defense. [8] At 9:33 a.m. on 14 September 1954, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber dropped a 40- kilotonne (170 TJ) [ 3 ] atomic weapon—an RDS-4 bomb, which had been previously tested in 1951 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site [ 3 ] [ 9 ] —from ...
MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 ...
Post-Soviet Russia has not carried out a nuclear test. The Soviet Union last tested in 1990, and the United States in 1992. No country except North Korea has conducted a test involving a nuclear ...
The series included Touchstone Kearsarge, a joint US-Soviet test as part of the Joint Verification Experiment (JVE). The JVE's purpose was to provide yield data to both parties about each other's nuclear test sites so that accurate remote measurements could be taken to verify each other's compliance with the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT).