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Catalog of Worldwide Nuclear Testing

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The book provides a classification of nuclear tests conducted by five nuclear states (USA, USSR, UK, France and China) from 1945 through 1996. It is the first attempt to show the entire picture and to describe, in a comparative manner, the main features of the nuclear testing programs of all nuclear states. The book includes a unified catalog of all known nuclear tests with their basic characteristics, and comments to the catalog. The book has been published in English and is intended for a wide range of specialists, and those in the public who are interested in the history of nuclear weapons creation and development of nuclear technologies.

The book consists of the following sections:

Classification of Nuclear Tests in the Unified Catalog;
Areas of Nuclear Testing;
Nuclear Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (1945-1996);
General Characteristics of Nuclear Tests;
Distribution of US Nuclear Tests by Operations;
Nuclear Explosions of India and Pakistan.

The book has been prepared by a group of experts from the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy and RFNC-VNIIEF including I.A.Andryushin, N.P.Voloshin, R.I.Ilkaev, A.M.Matushchenko, L.D.Ryabev, V.G.Strukov, A.K.Chernyshev, and Yu.A.Yudin. The Editor-in-Chief of the book is Academician V.N.Mikhailov, Minister for Atomic Energy (1992-1998).

The book was published by Begell-House, Inc., New York in 1999.

The full online version of this catalog is available at the Electronic Data Center (affiliate of Begell House) and delivered in HTML format, all tables are fully interactive.