Country Soviet Union Number of tests 31 | Period 1979 | |
Test site Atyrau, Kazakhstan; Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Donetsk, Ukraine; Khanty-Mansi, Russia; Krasnoyarsk, Russia; NZ Area B, Matochkin Shar, Novaya Zemlya, Russia; Sakha, Russia; Sary-Uzen/Murzhik, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan Test type underground shaft, underground tunnel Max. yield 150 kilotonnes of TNT (630 TJ) | ||
The Soviet Union's 1979 nuclear test series was a group of 31 nuclear tests conducted in 1979. These tests followed the 1978 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1980 Soviet nuclear tests series.
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