NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
WEBNUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.
List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia
WEBThe following is a list of the most powerful nuclear weapon tests. All tests on the first chart were multi-stage thermonuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia
WEBNuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons. Such tests have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout.
Visualising the 2,056 nuclear tests conducted since 1945
WEBAug 29, 2023 · According to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Soviet Union conducted 456 tests at the Semipalatinsk test site, with...
Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia
WEBThe test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. Concerns about whether the complex Fat Man design would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test.
The Trinity Test ‑ Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer & Impact
WEBApr 23, 2010 · At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists detonated a plutonium bomb at a test site located on the U.S. Air Force base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, some 120 miles south of...
Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and …
WEBJul 20, 2023 · The research shows that the first atomic bomb explosion’s effects had been underestimated, and could help more “downwinders” press for federal compensation.
The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test - The New York Times
WEBJul 15, 2020 · The 75th anniversary of what’s known as the Trinity explosion, the world’s first nuclear weapon test, comes as tensions over nuclear devices intensify.
U.S. nuclear testing's devastating legacy lingers, 30 years after ...
WEBSep 22, 2022 · Tests of the U.S.’s biggest nuclear megaweapons were reserved for sites in the Pacific, including one device in the Marshall Islands a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
End Nuclear Tests Day - History | United Nations
WEBThe history of nuclear testing began early on the morning of 16 July 1945 at a desert test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico when the United States exploded its first atomic bomb.