The leadership of the USSR thought so.
semipalatinsk.
Semipalatinsk
Nuclear testing occurred mostly in Semipalatinsk & Novaya Zemlya.
Nuclear Test Site in Semipalatinsk caused major environmental and health problems.
The US was the first to start testing nuclear weapons
The Bikini atoll was used for nuclear weapons testing.
In common usage, yes. Its just a short way of saying it.
Semipalatinsk Test Site, near the border of East Kazakhstan Province and Pavlodar Province, the test was successful with a 22 kiloton yield.
In 1991 the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site been closedIn 2005 Dike Kokaral has been completed to stop the Aral Sea shrinkage
testing without nuclear explosion
to test nuclear weapons
It was banned