"Announced United. States NuclearTests --ByDate wot. Event Name... oe Trinity First test of a nuclear weapon . Date (GCT) 07/16/45 Location. Alamogordo Purpose.| . Type... Tower Weapons Related This documentis a compilationof the nuclear tests that the United States has conducted and announced. However;‘the two nuclear. weapons that. the United States exploded over Japan ending World War tI are not listed. ‘These were not nuclear “tests* in the sensé thatthey were conducted to prove that, the weapon would work as designed (as wasthe.first test near Alamogordo, New Mexicoon July 16, 1945)ofta: advance. weapondésign, determine weapons effects, or verify weapon safoty as were the more than seven hundred tests that have taken place sin ‘June 30,1 946 The nuclear weapon dropped: August 6, 1945, from aa U.S. ‘Army Alr Force 829 bomber and detonated over Hiroshima japan, hadaan energy. yield: equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of TNT.” The one exploded in similar fashion August 9, 1945, over Nagasak Japan, hada Yield of a1.000 tons of TNT. Both detonations were intended to end World WarI as quickly as possible. ‘ Operation Crossroads Abie 06/30/46 Bikini Airdrop WeaponsEffects 21 kt Baker 07/24/46 Bikini UW Weapons Effects 21 kt Operation Sandstone al ms X-ray 04/14/48 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated 37 kt Yoke 04/30/48 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated 49 kt 05/14/48 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated 18 kt § Zebra | os _ Operation Ranger ee : Able 01/27/51 NTS Airdrop WeaponsRelated 1 kt Baker 01/28/51 NTS Airdrop WeaponsRelated 8 kt Easy 02/01/51 NTS Airdrop WeaponsRelated 1 kt Baker-2. 02/02/51 NTS Airdrop WeaponsRelated 8 kt Fox 02/06/51 NTS Airdrop WeaponsRelated 22 kt . Operation Greenhouse _ a Tepe Dog 04/07/51 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated Zt Easy 04/20/51 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated 47 kt George 05/08/51 Enewetak Tower WeaponsRelated -)- k-+ Ags kt