Notable Nuclear Detonations Catalog
A cited catalog of historically significant nuclear detonations — the first test, the two combat uses, and record-setting tests — with date, country, site, device type, yield in kilotons TNT-equivalent, and mappable coordinates. Every row is read live at build time from OnlyCSharp.Data.Catalogs.History.NuclearDetonations.NuclearDetonations.All. Authored as .razor; rendered to static HTML.
Sources: public-domain historical records — U.S. Department of Energy / Los Alamos test histories, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and per-event Wikipedia articles cross-checked for date, site, and yield. See the leaf PROVENANCE.
| Name | Year | Country | Site | Type | Device / purpose | Yield (kt) | Lat | Lon | Wikipedia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity | 1945 | United States | Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Test | 21 | 33.68 | -106.48 | Trinity_(nuclear_test) |
| Little Boy (Hiroshima) | 1945 | United States | Hiroshima, Japan | Fission (gun-type, uranium-235) | Combat | 15 | 34.39 | 132.45 | Little_Boy |
| Fat Man (Nagasaki) | 1945 | United States | Nagasaki, Japan | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Combat | 21 | 32.77 | 129.86 | Fat_Man |
| RDS-1 (First Lightning) | 1949 | Soviet Union | Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Test | 22 | 50.10 | 78.50 | RDS-1 |
| Ivy Mike | 1952 | United States | Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands | Thermonuclear (first true H-bomb) | Test | 1.04E+04 | 11.67 | 165.27 | Ivy_Mike |
| Hurricane | 1952 | United Kingdom | Montebello Islands, Australia | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Test | 25 | -20.40 | 115.57 | Operation_Hurricane |
| Joe-4 (RDS-6s) | 1953 | Soviet Union | Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan | Boosted fission (layer cake) | Test | 400 | 50.10 | 78.50 | RDS-6s |
| Castle Bravo | 1954 | United States | Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands | Thermonuclear | Test | 1.5E+04 | 11.70 | 165.28 | Castle_Bravo |
| RDS-37 | 1955 | Soviet Union | Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan | Thermonuclear (first Soviet two-stage) | Test | 1600 | 50.10 | 78.50 | RDS-37 |
| Gerboise Bleue | 1960 | France | Reggane, Algeria | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Test | 70 | 26.31 | -0.07 | Gerboise_Bleue |
| Tsar Bomba | 1961 | Soviet Union | Novaya Zemlya, Russia | Thermonuclear | Test | 5E+04 | 73.85 | 54.50 | Tsar_Bomba |
| Sedan (Storax Sedan) | 1962 | United States | Nevada Test Site | Thermonuclear (cratering) | Test | 104 | 37.18 | -116.05 | Sedan_(nuclear_test) |
| Starfish Prime | 1962 | United States | Johnston Atoll, Pacific (high altitude) | Thermonuclear (high-altitude) | Test | 1400 | 16.74 | -169.52 | Starfish_Prime |
| 596 | 1964 | China | Lop Nur, Xinjiang | Fission (implosion, uranium) | Test | 22 | 40.80 | 89.80 | 596_(nuclear_test) |
| Test No. 6 | 1967 | China | Lop Nur, Xinjiang | Thermonuclear (first Chinese H-bomb) | Test | 3300 | 40.80 | 89.80 | Test_No._6 |
| Smiling Buddha (Pokhran-I) | 1974 | India | Pokhran, Rajasthan | Fission (implosion, plutonium) | Test | — | 27.10 | 71.75 | Smiling_Buddha |
| Pokhran-II | 1998 | India | Pokhran, Rajasthan | Boosted fission / thermonuclear | Test | — | 27.08 | 71.72 | Pokhran-II |
| Chagai-I | 1998 | Pakistan | Ras Koh Hills, Chagai, Balochistan | Fission (implosion) | Test | — | 28.90 | 64.90 | Chagai-I |
| 2006 North Korean test | 2006 | North Korea | Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong | Fission | Test | — | 41.28 | 129.10 | 2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test |
| 2017 North Korean test | 2017 | North Korea | Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong | Thermonuclear (claimed) | Test | — | 41.34 | 129.04 | 2017_North_Korean_nuclear_test |