Simple. To see if they work.
semipalatinsk.
I think they are still testing
when France wanted to do what testing of a nuclear bombs on Moruroa island in the south pacific
Those were the only nuclear bombs used in the war. Any nuclear detonation after that - by any country - was only for testing.
Russia started testing and constructing nuclear, and atomic bombs at the end of WW2. today, they own more the 4000 operational nuclear warheads. along with a total 12000 in storage.
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No, only certain ways of testing them and only if a country agrees to the terms of that treaty.
Some bombs are nuclear. But most bombs are not nuclear.
Bikini atoll - Operation Crossroads, 2 shots.
US - 1945USSR - 1949UK - 1952France - 1960
This question could be easily misconstrued. While atomic and nuclear explosion mean the same thing, and all atomic bombs are nuclear bombs, not all nuclear bombs are atomic bombs. The more powerful nuclear bombs are hydrogen bombs, and there is a very important fundamental difference between the two. ============================================================== A bomb is fission - the splitting of an atom H bomb is fusion - the joining together of atoms (and much more powerfull)
Beacause millions of lives were taken by the nuclear bombs