FROM 10 September 1996 of the year an agreement was signed to complete nuclear testing. Each state has pledged not only to stop the production of nuclear weapons, and not to test it under any circumstances.
The explosion of an atomic bomb is rightfully considered the most powerful in the world.. And despite the fact, that tests were carried out everywhere, especially during the Second World War, only two countries: The USA and USSR continued to test and detonate bombs above 10 megatons.
The first nuclear weapon test took place in 1945 year in July. Since that day, more than two thousand tests have been carried out by humanity.
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It is considered, that a prerequisite for the development of nuclear weapons is testing on the ground, since no computer simulation can replace field data. That is why limiting testing is one of the ways to prevent the development of new nuclear systems or the addition of countries possessing nuclear weapons.
Need to say, that large-scale testing is not always necessary. To give an example from history, then you can remember Hiroshima. The bomb dropped on this city did not participate in any tests and, yet, It was dropped. However, The exact number of victims is still unknown, since many did not die immediately due to radiation sickness, which took their lives gradually.
And then in chronological order there were:
Bikini atoll 1946
— November 1952 of the year. Marshall Islands. A bomb called Ivy Mike, it became the first hydrogen bomb in the world, power over 10 megatons.
— Further, Castle Bravo. The US carried out a massive explosion, which became the largest in the world. the date of the — 28 February 1954 of the year.
— AT April 1958 of the year. Tests over Christmas Island. Great Britain dropped a bomb with the power 3 megaton. "Grapple Y" became the most powerful thermonuclear device in the country.
— 23 October 1961 g. The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test No 123 over Novaya Zemlya.
— DP 602 — development of Soviet craftsmen of the 50s. The so-called “Tsar Bomba” or “Kuzka’s Mother”. The tests of which fell on October 1961 of the year. It was she who became the most powerful in the history of mankind. Design power — 3333 Hiroshima, and this is somewhere 50 megatons
— 17 June 1967 of the year China carried out the first and quite successful test of a new thermonuclear bomb “Nuclear Test No6”. The target was the Lop Nor training ground, dropped a bomb analogue of TU-16 — HONG-6
— Tests "Canopus" in August 1968 of the year. This time, France. "Teller-Ulam" with a capacity of about 2,6 megaton. However, few details are known about this test and the development of the French nuclear program in general..
And in the 1970s, the Americans developed the B83 thermonuclear bomb, which still remains one of the main types of nuclear weapons of the US Air Force.
/Artem Kuznetsov/
