Link: Nuclear Explosions Database

[zakur]

From Geoscience Australia, a database of nuclear explosions with the location, date and size of explosions around the world since 1945:

http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_query.html

I did a search on United States for the year 1968 - they averaged more than one a week!

It's also interesting to see the various names the tests are given. Some seem appropriate like torch, stinger, auger, hatchet, etc. Others just don't sound right to name a nuke blast: mickey, imp, hula, brie?

 

[LFTKBS]

Great post. It's kind of amusing that all of the UK's initial tests were in Australia (tho' I suppose residents of Britain/Ireland/Scotland are a little too tightly packed for testing there).