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Yes, many. But not in an attack on anyplace; just for test, troop training, and propaganda purposes. These real live bombs were dropped from airplanes from 1946 through 1962 by various nations deliberately. In some training exercises the troops were required to march over Ground Zero within hours of the shot.
There were also several launched on missiles to explode in space (but these technically did not drop). One of these space nuclear test shots actually caused a manned Gemini space mission to be postponed several days out of fear of exposure to radiation from that bomb captured by the earth's magnetic field.
And this does not count all the tower, balloon, underwater, underground, surface, cratering, etc. test shots done from 1945 to the present.
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As far as dropping real live nuclear weapons there were 32 incidents (in Military speak "Broken Arrows") where nuclear weapons were dropped or lost by accident. Six have never been recovered. These include:
- Date: July 27, 1956 Location: Suffolk, England
- Date: February 5, 1958 Location: Off Georgia, United States
- Date: February 28, 1958 Location: Greenham Common, England,
- Date: January 24, 1961 Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States
- Date: July 4, 1961 Location: North Sea (Russian submarine)
- Date: December 5, 1965 Location: Pacific Ocean off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga.
- Date: Mid-1960s (Date undetermined) Location: Kara Sea Russian source
- Date: January 17, 1966 Location: Palomares, Spain
- Date: April 11, 1968 Location: Pacific Ocean (Near Oahu) Russian source
- Date: November 1969 Location: White Sea
- Date: April 12, 1970 Location: Atlantic Ocean Russian Source
- Date: November 22, 1975 Location: Off Sicily, Italy
- Date: October 3, 1986 Location: Atlantic Ocean 480 miles east of Bermuda. Russian Source
- Date: April 7, 1989 Location: Atlantic Ocean 300 miles north of the Norwegian coast, Russian source .
- Date: August 10, 1985 Location: Near Vladivostok, Russia
- Date: September 27, 1991 Location: White Sea Russian source
- Date: March 20, 1993 Location: Barents Sea
- Date: February 11, 1992 Location: Barents Sea
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Which country dropped the atomic bomb in the cold war?
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yes
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North Korea but they are building now.
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What are causes of cold war?
The Atomic Bomb caused the cold war.
How did dropping the bomb help cause the cold war?
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