France’s First Nuclear Test: Gerboise Bleue
On 13 February 1960, France conducted its first nuclear test, code-named “Gerboise Bleue” (Blue Desert Rat). It...
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The First British Nuclear Test Ever: Operation Hurricane
Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3...
The Most Powerful Nuclear Detonation Ever Carried Out: Tsar Bomba
The AN602, also known as the Tsar Bomba, (code name Ivan or Vanya, as well as (erroneously) RDS-202 and RN202), was a...
The First Nuclear Test Ever Conducted: Trinity
On 16 July 1945, the first atomic weapon test was conduted in New Mexico, USA by th United States military’s...
