Country Soviet Union Number of tests 36 | Period 1958 | |
Test site Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; NZ Area C, Sukhoy Nos, Novaya Zemlya, Russia; Western Kazakhstan Test type air drop, atmospheric, high alt rocket (30–80 km) Max. yield 2.9 megatonnes of TNT (12 PJ) | ||
The Soviet Union's 1958 nuclear test series was a group of 36 nuclear tests conducted in 1958. These tests followed the 1957 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests series.
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