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Three '''test ban treaties''' aimed at prohibiting most [[nuclear weapons testing]] have been adopted: ...by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, prohibited all testing except underground tests ...

{{Short description|Soviet nuclear bomb first tested in 1953}} {{Infobox Nuclear weapons test ...

...] earned in the 1950s when it was the site of above-ground nuclear weapons testing. *A nickname for [[Piqua, Ohio]], from it having the first municipal nuclear power plant ...

{{Short description|Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile}} ...86]] in [[Dnipro]]petrovsk, Ukraine, on 20 March 1958 and cancelled before testing in December 1958. ...

{{Short description|1974 treaty between the United States and Soviet Union}} | long_name = Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests ...

{{Short description|France's largest nuclear test}} {{Infobox nuclear weapons test ...

{{Short description|1954 nuclear test of thermonuclear bomb by USA}} {{Infobox Nuclear weapons test ...

{{Short description|1965 Soviet underground nuclear test}} {{Infobox Nuclear weapons test ...

Black projects can include weapons, reconnaissance systems, and satellite operations.<ref name=":0" /> Two well known sites for testing of black projects are [[Nevada Test Site|the Nevada Test site]] and [[Area ...

*[[1934]] - Death of [[Orest Khvolson]], Russian and later Soviet physicist (b. [[1852]]) ...5]] - In [[New York City]], more than 170 countries decide to extend the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]] indefinitely and without conditions. ...

{{short description|Largest pure-fission US nuclear bomb test}} {{Infobox Nuclear weapons test ...

...traces the development of [[nuclear weapon]]s and their [[Nuclear testing|testing]], from America's [[Trinity test]] of 1945 (hence the title) to the first ...nd calibrate the Trinity device, and ending with the last U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonation (called [[Operation Dominic|Tightrope]]) of the [[Project Nike#N ...

| origin = [[Soviet Union]] | type = Nuclear [[cruise missile]] ...

{{Short description|1954 Soviet nuclear test with soldiers}} ...rcises'', V. II, 2006, p. 141]</ref> under the command of [[Marshal of the Soviet Union|Marshal]] [[Georgy Zhukov]] to the north of [[Totskoye]] village in [ ...

...middle of the crater created from the [[Castle Bravo]] test and the first nuclear test conducted on a vessel (March{{nbs}}26, 1954).]] A '''doomsday device''' is a hypothetical construction – usually a weapon or weapons system – which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly [[Earth]], ...

{{Short description|Nuclear detonations in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere}} [[File:Starfish prime 35mm frame.jpg|thumb|Frame of the [[Starfish Prime]] nuclear test]] ...

{{Short description|Weapons used in space warfare}} ...]s during the [[Cold War]], and some remain under development today. Space weapons are also a central theme in [[military science fiction]] and sci-fi video g ...

{{Short description|1953 Soviet atmospheric nuclear test}} {{Infobox Nuclear weapons test ...

...ations to employ [[nonviolent]] [[direct action]] to protest against the [[nuclear arms race]]. ...ediate antecedent, a committee known as Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, was formed by radical [[Quaker]] [[Lawrence Scott (Quaker)|Lawrence Scott] ...

{{Short description|First Soviet nuclear bomb}} | image = [[File:Casing for the first Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-1.jpg|250px|center]] ...