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Map of locations of Nuclear tests and use of nuclear weapons. The only use of nuclear weapons in war is at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan. Locations of nuclear tests or weapons as dots. Major test sites with more than 100 tests marked as large dots (Nevada USA, Mururoa atoll in the Pacific, Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan and Novaya Zemlya island north of Russia). Not sure of the exact location of nuclear testing within Ukraine, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan - the dot in these cases denotes that there was testing in those countries, rather than a specific location in these countries.

• Red = USSR (light red for former Soviet republics outside Russia where nuclear weapons were tested, dark red for Russia which is the only former Soviet republics which still has nuclear weapons)
• Light blue = USA
• Dark blue = France
• Purple = UK
• Orange = China
• Yellow = India
• Brown = Pakistan

• Green = areas where nuclear devices have been used in different country to that owning them
• Grey with question mark denotes the possible Vela incident

See also these maps at external sites: [1], [2], [3], [4]

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