Weapons Test

The first detonation of a nuclear weapon, the plutonium implosion device nicknamed the Gadget, at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945 on the A...

The continental US proving ground, 1,350 square miles northwest of Las Vegas, hosting 928 announced nuclear tests between 1951 and...

Site of 23 US nuclear tests from 1946 to 1958, including the Operation Crossroads underwater Baker shot in 1946 and the 15 megaton...

The Soviet Arctic archipelago proving ground where Tsar Bomba, the 50 megaton largest bomb ever detonated, exploded over the Sukho...

The primary Soviet test site, 18,000 square km of the Kazakh steppe, hosting 456 nuclear explosions from 1949 to 1989, including t...

The French Pacific atoll test site in French Polynesia where 41 atmospheric and over 130 underground tests were conducted from 196...

British test field in the South Australian desert, site of seven major trials and hundreds of minor experiments from 1956 to 1963....

Kiritimati in the central Pacific hosted the first British hydrogen bomb tests of Operation Grapple in 1957 and 1958 plus later US...

Chinas nuclear test ground at the dried salt lake of Lop Nur in Xinjiang, hosting 45 tests from the first bomb in October 1964 to ...

The mountain test site in the northeast where North Korea detonated six devices from 2006 to 2017, ending with an explosion estima...

Test range in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan where India carried out its first nuclear explosion, Smiling Buddha, in May 1974. In Ma...

Mountains of Balochistan where Pakistan carried out its first nuclear tests on 28 May 1998, about two weeks after the Indian tests...

The French test site in the Algerian Sahara where Gerboise Bleue, the first French nuclear bomb, was detonated in February 1960. F...

An island in the Aleutian chain of Alaska used for three underground nuclear tests. Cannikin in 1971, at about 5 megatons, was the...

A Pacific atoll where the United States detonated 43 nuclear devices between 1948 and 1958, including Ivy Mike in 1952, the first ...