This first of a series of posts is an attempt to show locations or all nuclear explosions from the first in 1945 to the most recent, in 1998. There is an enormous amount of information on the web, and some posts on the BBS have already provided good information about some of the testing. I'll try to provide links to all of them as I proceed. I also want to thank ink_polaroid and greenwood for contributing help with getting all of the data to a managable state and for providing other guidance.

US nuclear devices 1945-1949 (attachment)
The first nuclear bomb, nicknamed " the Gadget", was detonated at Trinity Site at the Alamogordo Bombing Range (now renamed The White Sands Missile Range) On July 16, 1945, a false dawn lit the dark desert sky in south central New Mexico and the age of nuclear weapons was born. The next two atomic bombs were not considered tests, but weapons, because they obliterated the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing about 350,000 people as an immediate result of the blasts, and brought an abrupt end to World War II. Five more tests took place prior to 1950 in the Pacific Test Range on and near Bikini and Enewetak Islands, two of the Marshall Islands. By mid-1949 the Soviet Union had joined the "club", detonating its first A-bomb in a remote site.


The "gadget" Many pictures and quotes from this series of posts are from nuclearweaponarchive.org/

The Trinity bomb


Little Boy and Fat Man
For more about the bombs dropped on Japan see this site.

For more on nuclear weapons see nuclearweaponarchive.org

To see about all testing by all countries, go here.