What the records say
- When
- 20 Oct 1961
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 1,450
- Where
- Nz Russ
- Coordinates
- 73.80° N, 53.20° E
- Yield kt
- 1450
- Type
- atmosph
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- UGS
Raduga (nuclear test)
Raduga is the codename of a Soviet thermonuclear test, conducted on October 20, 1961, in Mityushikha Bay, Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya, in the 1961 Soviet nuclear tests.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated