In war: August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945. They have never been used since.
In peacetime: some were dropped, some were detonated on the ground, some were detonated under the ground, some were detonated under water, some were detonated on steel towers, some were detonated hanging below balloons, some were detonated in the air after being shot from artillery pieces, some were detonated in the air on rockets fired from fighter intercepter planes, some were detonated high in the atmosphere or in space carried there on rockets, etc.
The first post WW2 tests were in the summer of 1946: Crossroads Able was dropped from a B-29. Crossroads Baker was suspended underwater from a barge in the center of Bikini lagoon. Due to unanticipated contamination from the Baker shot, the Crossroads Charlie shot was canceled.
Although most major powers (particularly the US and Russia) have ceased all nuclear tests, testing continues today by other nations.
The bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomic bombs and not nuclear bombs and were designed to explode above the ground and not on impact.
The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
They explode, I believe
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1945
18th May1998, but its not atomic bomb (its nuclear bomb)
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Yes.
It did explode, but this was due to a surge in steam pressure which blew off the top of the reactor, it was not a nuclear explosion as in a nuclear weapon.
The bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomic bombs and not nuclear bombs and were designed to explode above the ground and not on impact.
No, a bomb is not necessarily a nuclear reaction. A bomb can be any device that is designed to explode and cause destruction, whereas a nuclear reaction involves the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei to release energy. Nuclear bombs, also known as atomic bombs, utilize nuclear reactions to produce a very powerful explosion.
Highly unlikely if not altogether impossible. In a core meltdown, you might see a steam explosion if the core melts and breaches the containment structure and hits say cooling water. But even a runaway chain reaction in a reactor would not cause a nuclear explosion like a bomb.
No, that is not correct.The correct spelling is explode.For example:They watched the bomb explode from a distance.The nuclear plant was about to explode.
First of all, EMPs don't really explode like a nuclear bomb. It releases alot of energy like a nuclear bomb. EMP's do not affect the body... that much.
The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
yes, several. all low yield underground test devices.