Canopus (or Opération Canopus) was the codename of the first French two-stage thermonuclear test. It was conducted by the Pacific Carrier Battle Group...

refer to: Canopus (insect), Neotropical bug genus Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship Canopus (nuclear test) was the...

Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...

 'Blue Jerboa') was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the...

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons. Such tests have resulted until...

conducted overt nuclear tests. North Korea had been a party to the NPT but withdrew in 2003. Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but...

possess independent (non-NATO) nuclear weapons. France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon, doing so in 1960 under...

1968 – French 'Canopus' test: CTBTO Preparatory Commission". www.ctbto.org. Retrieved 15 April 2017. "France | Countries | NTI". The Nuclear Threat Initiative...

explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated...

President Harry S. Truman, eight days after the first successful test of a nuclear weapon. Despite their wartime military alliance, the United States...