☢️ 9 Nuclear-Armed Nations — First Nuclear Test
(Date • Code Name • Location)
🇺🇸 USA — 16 July 1945
Trinity
New Mexico Desert, United States
🇷🇺 USSR / Russia — 29 Aug 1949
RDS-1 (First Lightning)
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 3 Oct 1952
Hurricane
Montebello Islands, Australia
🇫🇷 France — 13 Feb 1960
Gerboise Bleue
Sahara Desert, Algeria
🇨🇳 China — 16 Oct 1964
Project 596
Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China
🇮🇳 India — 18 May 1974
Smiling Buddha
Pokhran, Rajasthan, India
🇵🇰 Pakistan — 28 May 1998
Chagai-I
Ras Koh Hills, Balochistan, Pakistan
🇮🇱 Israel — ~1967 (No official test)
Undeclared nuclear capability
Dimona facility widely suspected
🇰🇵 North Korea — 9 Oct 2006
No official code name
Announced as “underground nuclear test”
Punggye-ri Test Site, North Hamgyong Province
Only these 9 nations possess nuclear weapons.
Source: IAEA • SIPRI • NTI • CTBTO • Arms Control Association