Events
TrinityHiroshimaNagasakiGreenhouse
(boosted fission)
225KTIvy Mike
(wet thermonuclear)
10.4MTSandstone
(2nd Gen)
49KTfission bomb
400KTBravo 15MTRomeo 11MTKoon 0.11MTUnion 6.9MTYankee II 13.5MTNectar 1.7MTWigwam
(300m ocean)Eisenhower's test banSunbeam
(small tactical warheads)Dominic
(Last Atmospheric)Partial Test Ban TreatyComprehensive Test Ban TreatyRDS-1 "Joe-1"
22KTRDS-2
38KTRDS-4
(Tactical boosted fission)
28KTRDS-37
Hydrogen Bomb
1.6MTfission bomb
400KTSoviets stopped testingResume testingRDS-220 "Tsar Bomba"
57MTCuban Missle Crisislast atmospheric testNuclear Non-Proliferation TreatyThreshold Test Ban TreatyGorbachev test freezeUS Atomic Energy Act 1
(no knowledge transfer)Anglo-American AgreementHurricane
25KTTotem (Blue Danube)
10KT & 8KTMosaic
(boosted fission)
15KT & 60/98KT (?)Buffalo
(Red Beard)15KT & 10KT
(Blue Danube) 1.5KT & 3KTAntler
(surface to air)US–UK Mutual Defence AgreementBerlin CrisisDissolution of the Soviet UnionShort Granite
300KTOrange Herald
720KTPurple Granite
200KTGrapple X
(thermonuclear)
1.8MTGrapple Y
3MTPennant
24KTFlagpole
1MTHalliard
800KTBurgee
25KTUS withdraws from INF TreatyUS test ground-based TomahawkRussia used North Korean Hwasong-11A/B
missiles in the Ukrainian WarNATO missile defence system interim capabilityTest of SSC-8 cruise missileTest of SS-25 & RS-26 ICBMsNATO accuses Russia of breaking INF treatyUS withdraws from ABMRussia suspends participation
in New STARTCanopus
French Thermonuclear
2.6MT596
Chinese Fission Bomb
22KTGerboise Bleue
French Fission Bomb
70KTTest No. 6
China 3-stage thermonuclear
3.3MTSmiling Buddha
Indian Fission Bomb
8KTShakti 1
Indian Thermonuclear
45KTChagai 1
Pakistan boosted fission
40KTNorth Korea fission bomb
1KT?North Korea Thermonuclear
7KT?Periods
Cold WarWW2Joseph StalinKhrushchevBrezhnevGorbachevRooseveltHarry TrumanDwight EisenhowerJohn F. KennedyLyndon JohnsonRichard NixonGerald FordJimmy CarterRonald ReaganGeorge W. BushBill ClintonVietnam WarMAUDManhattan ProjectTube Alloy ProjectFuchs passes UK/US information to SovietsYeltsinPutinRusso-Ukrainain WarSORT TreatyINF TreatySALT IABM TreatyNew START
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