Template:First nuclear tests
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| Country | First tests by nuclear weapon design | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fission | Year | Boosted fission | Year | Multi-stage | Year | Multi-stage above one megaton | Year | |
| Trinity | 1945 | Greenhouse George | 1951 | Greenhouse George | 1951 | Ivy Mike | 1952 | |
| RDS-1 | 1949 | RDS-6s | 1953 | RDS-37 | 1955 | RDS-37 | 1955 | |
| Operation Hurricane | 1952 | Mosaic G1 | 1956 | Grapple 1 | 1957 | Grapple X | 1957 | |
| 596 | 1964 | 596L | 1966 | 629 | 1966 | 639 | 1967 | |
| Gerboise Bleue | 1960 | Rigel | 1966 | Canopus | 1968 | Canopus | 1968 | |
| Smiling Buddha | 1974 | Shakti I (unconfirmed) | 1998 | Shakti I (unconfirmed) | 1998 | n/a | ||
| Chagai I | 1998 | Chagai I | 1998 | n/a | n/a | |||
| #1 | 2006 | #4 (unconfirmed) | 2016 | #6 (unconfirmed) | 2017 | n/a | ||
| See Nuclear weapons and Israel § Nuclear testing | n/a | |||||||
| See South Africa and weapons of mass destruction § Nuclear weapons | n/a | |||||||