Announced United States nuclear tests, July 1945--December 1990

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6062510

This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by event name all nuclear tests conducted and announced by the United States from July 1945 to December 1990 with the exception of the GMX experiments. Discussion is included on test dates, test series, test yields, test locations, test types and purposes, test totals for Nevada Test Site (NTS) detection of radioactivity from NTS events, and categorization of NTS nuclear tests. Briefly discussed are agreements between the US and the Soviet Union regarding test banning. (MB)

• Research Organization: USDOE Nevada Operations Office, Las Vegas, NV (USA). Office of External Affairs
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6062510
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV-209-Rev.11; ON: DE91009062
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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