NOTE: At some time recently, perhaps in moving from GE 4.1 to 4.2, coordinates of some US nuke placemarks got scrambled. They now show as being located off the west coast of Africa at (0, 9) lat/lon. I'm searching for a useful new database. The ones I used previously seem to have disappeared from the web. Until this gets fixed try Calico_Jack's post for US tests.


From the first nuclear bomb test in New Mexico in 1945, through the most recent "exchange" between Pakistan and India and North Korea's attempt, there have been over 2000 confirmed nuclear explosions around the globe. This post is designed to link the other posts for each country, and any related material, together for easier reference. The attachment includes accurate to questionable locations of all 2000+. The folder also includes the locations of the two weapons dropped on Japan, which are considered to be tests, but are nuclear detonations.

Trinity - the first test .

***** Trivia - NUCLEAR - It's pronounced nuc-le-ur, not nu-cu-lur. *****

Individual country posts with links and pictures.
U. S. tests and weapons
Soviet tests
U. K. tests
French tests
Chinese tests
Indian tests
Pakistani tests
The mystery test

Interested in how much damage that nuke would have done to your favorite city? Try this.

I think we're working on the same lines here. I've written a searchable database containing every test & explosion from authoritative sources.

It will output the results of any search as KML or CSV.

If anyone wants to help ensure its accurate and up to date, I can give you update rights.

http://nukes.tjworld.org

I was wondering about some additions, but not sure how much use people will make of it.

1. Store links to online photos and documents related to specfic explosions
2. Allow users to add their own comments and reports as "commentary"

Other ideas welcome.

TJ.

The mystery site test was joint Israeli/South African operation. In the late 1980's South Africa had six atomic warheads of kiloton size.

Hill, here's a boundary map of the Nevada Test Site I've put together. I think mine matches up quite well with the one provided by the government website

Enjoy!
Cheers,
Phil, UK

How about this one? Is it a test site too (underground?)? It is in the center of the Taklamakan desert. The orange spot has a diameter of 400 meters.

beamish

duplicate placemark removed from 38.95845,83.65765

Great post

some add info about
The purpose of Trinity Atomic Web Site is to tell the story of nuclear weapons through historical documents, photos, and videos. In the spirit of Project Gutenberg, the intent is to create an online archive from the large body of U.S. government information about nuclear weapons.

The Chinese tests have all been about 300 miles (500 km) ENE of you placemark. LINK
If you use the Layers box - Google Earth Community (unranked) - you will see two other placemarks already there. Please respond to existing posts when possible rather than creating new placemarks. That will bring the thread to the top of the post pages and expose it to more people who just may have an answer.

41.722602� N 88.736184� E.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Nur

Hi Hill

I can see that you have posted a placemark for the first H-bomb Ivy Mike in the location 11-14-15N 162-11-45E. I have a correction to that one: Ivy Mike was detonated in the northern part of Enewetak atoll where the small island of Elugelab was totally whiped out. The resulting crater is visible in the location 11-40-00N 162-11-22E and although there is a low-resolution stripe it is possible to see the eastern-most tip of Bogon where the detection station for the test was placed.

Another interesting nuclear location is the "Cactus Dome" on Runit island in location 11-33-09N 162-20-50E, where the crater from the May 5, 1958 Cactus Test was filled by radioactive debris and covered by a concrete dome in 1977 to 1980.

Thanks for the more precise location. Resolution has improved tremendously since the original post was made. I've made placemarks from your information and added them as attachments above. Some day in the not-too-distant future I hope to get back to that post and re-check all 2000+ placemarks for currert accuracy. Until that time your helpful information will be in the thread for others to easily see.