CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST/DEPLOYED

July 16, 1945 United States tests first fission nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, New Mexico in Trinity test August 6, 1945 US drops an atom bomb called Little Boy on Hiroshima Japan . The city of Hiroshima is destroyed killing hundreds of thousands of people. August 9, 1945 US drops an atom bomb called Fat Man on Nagasaki Japan . The city of Nagasaki is destroyed killing hundreds of thousands of people. July 1946 The Crossroads Series tests was the first nuclear weapons test series since the Trinity test and was conducted in Marshall islands. August 1949
Soviet Union carries out its first atmospheric nuclear test codenamed at Semipalatinsk testing site in northern Kazakhstan.

October 1952 Britain carries out its first nuclear test, Operation Hurricane, near the Montebello Islands of Western Australia. November 1952
United States became the first country to test a hydrogen bomb.

August 1953 Soviet Union replied by testing their first hydrogen bomb test. 1954
United States successfully explodes its deliverable thermonuclear, fusion or hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Castle Bravo test on 1 March 1954 yielded 15 megatons and was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States

1958 Britain successfully tests its first thermonuclear, fusion or hydrogen bomb. 1960 France successfully tests its first fission nuclear weapon October 1961 Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear weapon ever exploded- Tsar Bomba with an estimated yield of 50 megatons. It was tested at the Novaya Zemlya test site near the Arctic Circle. October 1962 For 13 days, the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the United States and the Soviet Union closer to the threat of thermonuclear war. October 1964 China successfully tests its first fission nuclear weapon. June 1967 China successfully tests its first thermonuclear bomb. May 1974 India successfully explodes two nuclear devices at Pokhran. India claimed it to be peaceful tests. May 1998 India conducted two underground nuclear test. India claimed it to be military tests. May 1998

Pakistan explodes five (HEU) nuclear weapons

In response to the Indian nuclear tests, its neighbor Pakistan conducted two underground nuclear test at its Ras Koh range.

October 2006

North Korea successfully tests its first nuclear device.

North Korea successfully tests its first nuclear device.

May 2009 North Korea carried out its second underground nuclear test. Feb 2013 North Korea carried out its third nuclear test.