Nuclear weapons testing
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nuclear-weapons-testing-165-18374720
title:
Nuclear weapons testing
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Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons. Such tests have resulted until 2020 in up to 2.4 million people dying from its global fallout. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detonations are affected by different conditions, and how personnel, structures, and equipment are affected when subjected to nuclear explosions. However, nuclear testing has often been used as an
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Controlled detonation of nuclear weapons for scientific or political purposes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing
date created:
2003-05-19T07:21:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:57:20Z
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