The leadership of the USSR thought so.
semipalatinsk.
Semipalatinsk
Nuclear testing occurred mostly in Semipalatinsk & Novaya Zemlya.
In remote isolated places. Most testing (except for a few countries) is now done underground, to prevent fallout. The US has ceased all physical testing and uses only computer simulated tests.
Nuclear Test Site in Semipalatinsk caused major environmental and health problems.
The US was the first to start testing nuclear weapons
In common usage, yes. Its just a short way of saying it.
In 1991 the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site been closedIn 2005 Dike Kokaral has been completed to stop the Aral Sea shrinkage
Semipalatinsk Test Site, near the border of East Kazakhstan Province and Pavlodar Province, the test was successful with a 22 kiloton yield.
It was banned
testing without nuclear explosion
to test nuclear weapons