You detonate it. Various instruments set up nearby collect data that is later evaluated to see how the bomb performed.
The atomic bomb test
The test location of the first atomic bomb was located in California as it was known as the Manhattan Project.
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they tested it in august 1949
August 1949
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
large test area and to see if bomb worked
the first atomic bomb was tested July 16 1945 in New Mexico
That depends mostly on the instrumentation you want to collect data on the test blast. The bomb itself is cheap.
July 16, 1945