Country Soviet Union Number of tests 78 | Period 1962 | |
Test site Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Kola Peninsula Launch Area (Barents Sea); NZ Area C, Sukhoy Nos, Novaya Zemlya, Russia Test type air drop, atmospheric, cruise missile, dry surface, high alt rocket (30–80 km), tower, underground tunnel Max. yield 24.2 megatonnes of TNT (101 PJ) | ||
The Soviet Union's 1962 nuclear test series was a group of 78 nuclear tests conducted in 1962. These tests followed the Soviet Project K nuclear tests series and preceded the 1964 Soviet nuclear tests series.
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