United States
July 16, 1945
US
The first nuclear weapon was used on Hiroshima , Japan . The first nuclear bomb test was conducted in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945 .
India conducted its first nuclear weapons test, codenamed "Smiling Buddha," on May 18, 1974. This made India the first country outside of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to possess nuclear weapons.
The first French nuclear test was Gerboise Bleu on February 13, 1960 at 06:04 Greenwich Mean Time. The test was conducted near Reganne in the Algerian Sahara desert in Africa. It was a tower shot from a 105-meter tower. The test device was a single-point implosion-type plutonium device and had a yield of between 60 and 70 kilotons (as predicted). It was the largest first test by the nuclear powers of the time.
pokhran..in 1974
July 16, 1945
US
Which test and when?
Enrico Fermi, 1942
"Smiling Buddha" was the code name of India's the first nuclear weapon test conducted on May 18, 1974.
India conducted its first nuclear detonation, described by India as a "peaceful nuclear explosion," on May 18 1974.
US, July 16, 1945. Project Trinity in north east corner of Whitesands bombing and gunnery range in New Mexico.
The first nuclear weapon was used on Hiroshima , Japan . The first nuclear bomb test was conducted in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945 .
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In 1998, India conducted five nuclear test explosions, designated Pokhran-II: three on the 11thof May, and two on the 13thof the same month.Related Information:These tests came about 24 years after India's first successful test explosion, Pokhran-I, which consisted of only one explosion.Pokhran-II established India as the sixth nuclear power in the world and the first outside the UN security Counsel.Pokhran is a reference to the test location, Pokran, Rajasthan.