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1989 Soviet nuclear tests

January 01, 1970

See also: List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union's 1989 nuclear test series[1] was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted in 1989. These tests [note 1] followed the 1988 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1990 Soviet nuclear tests series.

1989
Information
CountrySoviet Union
Test siteBalapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
Period1989
Number of tests7
Test typeunderground shaft, tunnel
Max. yield118 kilotonnes of TNT (490 TJ)
Test series chronology
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Nuclear tests edit

714 edit

Test 714 consisted of three devices with a combined yield of 85 kilotonnes of TNT (360 TJ). This was the last nuclear test at Semipalatinsk.[2]

List of nuclear tests edit

Soviet Union's 1989 series tests and detonations
Name [note 2] Date time (UT) Local time zone[note 3][3] Location[note 4] Elevation + height [note 5] Delivery, [note 6]
Purpose [note 7] 		Device[note 8] Yield[note 9] Fallout[note 10] References Notes
708 - 1 22 January 1989 03:57:09.06 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1328 49°56′25″N 78°48′58″E / 49.94029°N 78.81603°E / 49.94029; 78.81603 (708 - 1) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		118 kt [1][4][5][6][7]
708 - 2 22 January 1989 03:57:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1328 49°56′25″N 78°48′58″E / 49.94029°N 78.81603°E / 49.94029; 78.81603 (708 - 2) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		unknown yield [1][4][5][6][7]
709 12 February 1989 04:15:09.26 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1366 49°55′03″N 78°42′44″E / 49.9174°N 78.71217°E / 49.9174; 78.71217 (709) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		63 kt [1][4][5][6][7]
710 17 February 1989 04:01:09.22 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 139 49°49′25″N 78°04′05″E / 49.8235°N 78.068°E / 49.8235; 78.068 (710) 648 m (2,126 ft) + tunnel,
weapons development 		10 kt [1][5][6][7][8]
711 8 July 1989 03:47:00.09 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1352 49°52′07″N 78°46′43″E / 49.86849°N 78.77867°E / 49.86849; 78.77867 (711) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		22 kt [1][4][5][6][7]
712 - 1 2 September 1989 04:16:59.85 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1410 50°00′34″N 78°59′05″E / 50.00945°N 78.98467°E / 50.00945; 78.98467 (712 - 1) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		6 kt [1][4][5][6][7]
712 - 2 2 September 1989 04:16:59.9 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1410 50°00′34″N 78°59′05″E / 50.00945°N 78.98467°E / 50.00945; 78.98467 (712 - 2) 330 m (1,080 ft) + underground shaft,
weapons development 		unknown yield [1][4][5][6][7]
713 4 October 1989 11:30:00.16 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 169/2 49°44′59″N 78°00′42″E / 49.7498°N 78.0117°E / 49.7498; 78.0117 (713) 680 m (2,230 ft) – 94 m (308 ft) tunnel,
weapon effect 		4 kt [1][5][6][7][8]
714 - 1 19 October 1989 09:49:59.98 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1365 49°55′20″N 78°54′30″E / 49.92222°N 78.90833°E / 49.92222; 78.90833 (714 - 1) 330 m (1,080 ft) – 628 m (2,060 ft) underground shaft,
weapons development 		85 kt [1][5][6][7][8]
714 - 2 19 October 1989 09:50:00.0 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1365 49°55′20″N 78°54′30″E / 49.92222°N 78.90833°E / 49.92222; 78.90833 (714 - 2) 330 m (1,080 ft) – 592 m (1,942 ft) underground shaft,
weapons development 		unknown yield [1][6][7][9][10]
714 - 3 19 October 1989 09:50:00.0 ALMT (6 hrs)
 Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1365 49°55′20″N 78°54′30″E / 49.92222°N 78.90833°E / 49.92222; 78.90833 (714 - 3) 330 m (1,080 ft) – 556 m (1,824 ft) underground shaft,
weapons development 		unknown yield [1][6][7][9][10]
  1. ^ A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". Mikhailov, V. N. (ed.). . Begell-Atom, LLC. Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
  2. ^ The US, France and Great Britain have code-named their test events, while the USSR and China did not, and therefore have only test numbers (with some exceptions – Soviet peaceful explosions were named). Word translations into English in parentheses unless the name is a proper noun. A dash followed by a number indicates a member of a salvo event. The US also sometimes named the individual explosions in such a salvo test, which results in "name1 – 1(with name2)". If test is canceled or aborted, then the row data like date and location discloses the intended plans, where known.
  3. ^ To convert the UT time into standard local, add the number of hours in parentheses to the UT time; for local daylight saving time, add one additional hour. If the result is earlier than 00:00, add 24 hours and subtract 1 from the day; if it is 24:00 or later, subtract 24 hours and add 1 to the day. Historical time zone data obtained from the IANA time zone database.
  4. ^ Rough place name and a latitude/longitude reference; for rocket-carried tests, the launch location is specified before the detonation location, if known. Some locations are extremely accurate; others (like airdrops and space blasts) may be quite inaccurate. "~" indicates a likely pro-forma rough location, shared with other tests in that same area.
  5. ^ Elevation is the ground level at the point directly below the explosion relative to sea level; height is the additional distance added or subtracted by tower, balloon, shaft, tunnel, air drop or other contrivance. For rocket bursts the ground level is "N/A". In some cases it is not clear if the height is absolute or relative to ground, for example, Plumbbob/John. No number or units indicates the value is unknown, while "0" means zero. Sorting on this column is by elevation and height added together.
  6. ^ Atmospheric, airdrop, balloon, gun, cruise missile, rocket, surface, tower, and barge are all disallowed by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline; they occurred under the treaty, were sometimes protested, and generally overlooked if the test was declared to be a peaceful use.
  7. ^ Include weapons development, weapon effects, safety test, transport safety test, war, science, joint verification and industrial/peaceful, which may be further broken down.
  8. ^ Designations for test items where known, "?" indicates some uncertainty about the preceding value, nicknames for particular devices in quotes. This category of information is often not officially disclosed.
  9. ^ Estimated energy yield in tons, kilotons, and megatons. A ton of TNT equivalent is defined as 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie).
  10. ^ Radioactive emission to the atmosphere aside from prompt neutrons, where known. The measured species is only iodine-131 if mentioned, otherwise it is all species. No entry means unknown, probably none if underground and "all" if not; otherwise notation for whether measured on the site only or off the site, where known, and the measured amount of radioactivity released.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Yang, Xiaoping; North, Robert; Romney, Carl (August 2000). CMR Nuclear Explosion Database (Revision 3) (Technical report). SMDC Monitoring Research.
  2. ^ Adushkin, V. V.; Leith, W. (2001). Containment of Soviet Underground Nuclear Explosions. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.; Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow. Inst. for Dynamics of Geospheres. p. 7. from the original on 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  3. ^ . iana.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Thurber, Clifford; Trabant, Chad; Haslinger, Florian; Hartog, Renate (2001). Nuclear explosion locations at the Balapan, Kazakhstan, nuclear test site: the effects of high-precision arrival times and three-dimensional structure. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (Technical report). Vol. 123. pp. 283–301. doi:10.1016/s0031-9201(00)00215-6. from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Khalturin, Vitaly I.; Rautian, Tatyana G.; Richards, Paul G. (2000). (PDF). Pure and Applied Geophysics. 158: 143–171. doi:10.1007/pl00001153. S2CID 128953780. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Podvig, Pavel, ed. (2001). Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262661812. from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990. Sarov, Russia: RFNC-VNIIEF. 1996. The official Russian list of Soviet tests.
  8. ^ a b c Kim, Won-Young; Richards, Paul G.; Andrushkin, Vitaly; Ovtchinnikov, Vladimir (April 1, 2001). Borovoye digital seismogram archive for underground nuclear tests during 1966-1996 (PDF) (Technical report). LDEO. (PDF) from the original on April 15, 2003. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  9. ^ a b Andrushkin, Vitaly V.; Leith, William (September 1, 2001). (PDF) (Open File Report 01-312). USGS. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  10. ^ a b Nuclear explosions in the USSR: The North Test Site reference material, version 4 (PDF) (Technical report). IAEA Dept. of Nuclear Safety and Security. December 1, 2004. (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2013.

January 01, 1970
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See also List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union s 1989 nuclear test series 1 was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted in 1989 These tests note 1 followed the 1988 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1990 Soviet nuclear tests series 1989InformationCountrySoviet UnionTest siteBalapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan Degelen Semipalatinsk KazakhstanPeriod1989Number of tests7Test typeunderground shaft tunnelMax yield118 kilotonnes of TNT 490 TJ Test series chronology 1988 Soviet nuclear tests1990 Soviet nuclear tests Map all coordinates in 1989 Soviet nuclear tests using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KML GPX all coordinates GPX primary coordinates GPX secondary coordinates Contents 1 Nuclear tests 1 1 714 2 List of nuclear tests 3 ReferencesNuclear tests edit714 edit Test 714 consisted of three devices with a combined yield of 85 kilotonnes of TNT 360 TJ This was the last nuclear test at Semipalatinsk 2 List of nuclear tests editSoviet Union s 1989 series tests and detonations Name note 2 Date time UT Local time zone note 3 3 Location note 4 Elevation height note 5 Delivery note 6 Purpose note 7 Device note 8 Yield note 9 Fallout note 10 References Notes 708 1 22 January 1989 03 57 09 06 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1328 49 56 25 N 78 48 58 E 49 94029 N 78 81603 E 49 94029 78 81603 708 1 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development 118 kt 1 4 5 6 7 708 2 22 January 1989 03 57 09 1 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1328 49 56 25 N 78 48 58 E 49 94029 N 78 81603 E 49 94029 78 81603 708 2 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development unknown yield 1 4 5 6 7 709 12 February 1989 04 15 09 26 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1366 49 55 03 N 78 42 44 E 49 9174 N 78 71217 E 49 9174 78 71217 709 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development 63 kt 1 4 5 6 7 710 17 February 1989 04 01 09 22 ALMT 6 hrs Degelen Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 139 49 49 25 N 78 04 05 E 49 8235 N 78 068 E 49 8235 78 068 710 648 m 2 126 ft tunnel weapons development 10 kt 1 5 6 7 8 711 8 July 1989 03 47 00 09 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1352 49 52 07 N 78 46 43 E 49 86849 N 78 77867 E 49 86849 78 77867 711 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development 22 kt 1 4 5 6 7 712 1 2 September 1989 04 16 59 85 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1410 50 00 34 N 78 59 05 E 50 00945 N 78 98467 E 50 00945 78 98467 712 1 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development 6 kt 1 4 5 6 7 712 2 2 September 1989 04 16 59 9 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1410 50 00 34 N 78 59 05 E 50 00945 N 78 98467 E 50 00945 78 98467 712 2 330 m 1 080 ft underground shaft weapons development unknown yield 1 4 5 6 7 713 4 October 1989 11 30 00 16 ALMT 6 hrs Degelen Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 169 2 49 44 59 N 78 00 42 E 49 7498 N 78 0117 E 49 7498 78 0117 713 680 m 2 230 ft 94 m 308 ft tunnel weapon effect 4 kt 1 5 6 7 8 714 1 19 October 1989 09 49 59 98 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1365 49 55 20 N 78 54 30 E 49 92222 N 78 90833 E 49 92222 78 90833 714 1 330 m 1 080 ft 628 m 2 060 ft underground shaft weapons development 85 kt 1 5 6 7 8 714 2 19 October 1989 09 50 00 0 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1365 49 55 20 N 78 54 30 E 49 92222 N 78 90833 E 49 92222 78 90833 714 2 330 m 1 080 ft 592 m 1 942 ft underground shaft weapons development unknown yield 1 6 7 9 10 714 3 19 October 1989 09 50 00 0 ALMT 6 hrs Balapan Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan 1365 49 55 20 N 78 54 30 E 49 92222 N 78 90833 E 49 92222 78 90833 714 3 330 m 1 080 ft 556 m 1 824 ft underground shaft weapons development unknown yield 1 6 7 9 10 A bomb test may be a salvo test defined as two or more explosions where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length Mikhailov V N ed Catalog of World Wide Nuclear Testing Begell Atom LLC Archived from the original on 2014 04 26 Retrieved 2013 12 18 The US France and Great Britain have code named their test events while the USSR and China did not and therefore have only test numbers with some exceptions Soviet peaceful explosions were named Word translations into English in parentheses unless the name is a proper noun A dash followed by a number indicates a member of a salvo event The US also sometimes named the individual explosions in such a salvo test which results in name1 1 with name2 If test is canceled or aborted then the row data like date and location discloses the intended plans where known To convert the UT time into standard local add the number of hours in parentheses to the UT time for local daylight saving time add one additional hour If the result is earlier than 00 00 add 24 hours and subtract 1 from the day if it is 24 00 or later subtract 24 hours and add 1 to the day Historical time zone data obtained from the IANA time zone database Rough place name and a latitude longitude reference for rocket carried tests the launch location is specified before the detonation location if known Some locations are extremely accurate others like airdrops and space blasts may be quite inaccurate indicates a likely pro forma rough location shared with other tests in that same area Elevation is the ground level at the point directly below the explosion relative to sea level height is the additional distance added or subtracted by tower balloon shaft tunnel air drop or other contrivance For rocket bursts the ground level is N A In some cases it is not clear if the height is absolute or relative to ground for example Plumbbob John No number or units indicates the value is unknown while 0 means zero Sorting on this column is by elevation and height added together Atmospheric airdrop balloon gun cruise missile rocket surface tower and barge are all disallowed by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground and remained useful under the PTBT Intentional cratering tests are borderline they occurred under the treaty were sometimes protested and generally overlooked if the test was declared to be a peaceful use Include weapons development weapon effects safety test transport safety test war science joint verification and industrial peaceful which may be further broken down Designations for test items where known indicates some uncertainty about the preceding value nicknames for particular devices in quotes This category of information is often not officially disclosed Estimated energy yield in tons kilotons and megatons A ton of TNT equivalent is defined as 4 184 gigajoules 1 gigacalorie Radioactive emission to the atmosphere aside from prompt neutrons where known The measured species is only iodine 131 if mentioned otherwise it is all species No entry means unknown probably none if underground and all if not otherwise notation for whether measured on the site only or off the site where known and the measured amount of radioactivity released References edit a b c d e f g h i j k l Yang Xiaoping North Robert Romney Carl August 2000 CMR Nuclear Explosion Database Revision 3 Technical report SMDC Monitoring Research Adushkin V V Leith W 2001 Containment of Soviet Underground Nuclear Explosions Geological Survey Reston VA Akademiya Nauk SSSR Moscow Inst for Dynamics of Geospheres p 7 Archived from the original on 2022 11 11 Retrieved 2022 11 11 Time Zone Historical Database iana com Archived from the original on 2014 03 11 Retrieved March 8 2014 a b c d e f Thurber Clifford Trabant Chad Haslinger Florian Hartog Renate 2001 Nuclear explosion locations at the Balapan Kazakhstan nuclear test site the effects of high precision arrival times and three dimensional structure Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Technical report Vol 123 pp 283 301 doi 10 1016 s0031 9201 00 00215 6 Archived from the original on December 19 2013 Retrieved December 13 2013 a b c d e f g h i Khalturin Vitaly I Rautian Tatyana G Richards Paul G 2000 Chemical explosions during 1961 1989 on the Semipalatinsk Test Site Kazakhstan PDF Pure and Applied Geophysics 158 143 171 doi 10 1007 pl00001153 S2CID 128953780 Archived from the original PDF on March 4 2016 Retrieved December 13 2013 a b c d e f g h i j k Podvig Pavel ed 2001 Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Cambridge MA MIT Press ISBN 9780262661812 Archived from the original on April 22 2022 Retrieved January 9 2014 a b c d e f g h i j k USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990 Sarov Russia RFNC VNIIEF 1996 The official Russian list of Soviet tests a b c Kim Won Young Richards Paul G Andrushkin Vitaly Ovtchinnikov Vladimir April 1 2001 Borovoye digital seismogram archive for underground nuclear tests during 1966 1996 PDF Technical report LDEO Archived PDF from the original on April 15 2003 Retrieved December 13 2013 a b Andrushkin Vitaly V Leith William September 1 2001 The containment of Soviet underground nuclear explosions PDF Open File Report 01 312 USGS Archived from the original PDF on May 9 2013 Retrieved December 13 2013 a b Nuclear explosions in the USSR The North Test Site reference material version 4 PDF Technical report IAEA Dept of Nuclear Safety and Security December 1 2004 Archived PDF from the original on May 25 2012 Retrieved December 13 2013 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1989 Soviet nuclear tests amp oldid 1166963323, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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