1985 Soviet nuclear tests

none List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union 1985 Soviet Union Arkhangelsk, Russia; Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; Khanty-Mansi, Russia 1985 10 underground shaft, tunnel 114 ktTNT in 1984 Soviet nuclear tests 1987 Soviet nuclear tests 1985 Soviet nuclear tests The Soviet Union's 1985 nuclear test series was a group of 10 nuclear tests conducted in 1985. These testsA 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". V. N. Mikhailov Catalog of World Wide Nuclear Testing Begell-Atom, LLC http://www.iss-atom.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/1.htm 2013-12-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20140426102201/http://www.iss-atom.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/1.htm 2014-04-26 dead followed the 1984 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1987 Soviet nuclear tests series. + Soviet Union's 1985 series tests and detonations Name 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. Date time (UT) Local time zoneTo 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.Time Zone Historical Database iana.com http://www.ietf.org/timezones/ March 8, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140311224729/http://www.ietf.org/timezones/ 2014-03-11 dead LocationRough 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 + height 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. Delivery,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.Purpose Include weapons development, weapon effects, safety test, transport safety test, war, science, joint verification and industrial/peaceful, which may be further broken down. DeviceDesignations 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. YieldEstimated energy yield in tons, kilotons, and megatons. A ton of TNT equivalent is defined as 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie). FalloutRadioactive 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 Notes 659 - 1659 dmy 1985 2 10 03:27:10.07 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1340 49.89917 78.77939 659 - 1 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000620000 62 kt 659 - 2659 dmy 1985 2 10 03:27:10.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1340 49.89917 78.77939 659 - 2 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 659 - 3659 dmy 1985 2 10 03:27:10.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1340 49.89917 78.77939 659 - 3 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 660 - 1660 dmy 1985 4 25 00:57:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1319 49.92667 78.88083 660 - 1 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000740000 74 kt 660 - 2660 dmy 1985 4 25 00:57:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1319 49.92667 78.88083 660 - 2 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 661 - 1661 dmy 1985 6 15 00:57:03.21 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1341 49.90829 78.83869 661 - 1 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 001140000 114 kt 661 - 2661 dmy 1985 6 15 00:57:03.2 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1341 49.90829 78.83869 661 - 2 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 661 - 3661 dmy 1985 6 15 00:57:03 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1061bis 49.92084 78.8196 661 - 3 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 662 Benzol (Benzine)662 Benzol (Benzine) dmy 1985 6 18 04:00:00.1 SVET (5 hrs) Khanty-Mansi, Russia 60.6 72.7 662 Benzol (Benzine) inline 000000 – 2860 m on underground shaft,oil stimulation 000025000 2.5 kt Oil recovery intensification. 110 km SW Surgur. 663 - 1663 dmy 1985 6 30 02:39:05.13 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1354 49.86438 78.66744 663 - 1 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000860000 86 kt 663 - 2663 dmy 1985 6 30 02:39:05.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1354 49.86438 78.66744 663 - 2 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 664664 dmy 1985 7 11 02:57:02.0 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 175-pp 49.75024 78.04326 664 inline 000682682 m on + tunnel,weapons development 000005000 500 t 666 Agat (Kvartz 1)666 Agat (Kvartz 1) dmy 1985 7 18 21:15:00.3 MSK (3 hrs) Arkhangelsk, Russia 65.994 41.038 666 Agat (Kvartz 1) inline 000000 – 770 m on underground shaft,seismic sounding 000085000 8.5 kt Seismic probing program. 150 km W Mizen. 665665 dmy 1985 7 19 04:00:08.0 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 901 49.80325 78.06276 665 inline 000710710 m on + tunnel,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 667667 dmy 1985 7 20 00:53:16.98 ALMT (6 hrs) Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 1322 49.94972 78.78389 667 inline 000330330 m on + underground shaft,weapons development 000740000 74 kt 668 - 1668 dmy 1985 7 25 03:11:09.23 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 152 49.8157 78.0096 668 - 1 inline 000654654 m on + tunnel,weapons development 000050000 5 kt 668 - 2668 dmy 1985 7 25 03:11:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 152 49.8157 78.0096 668 - 2 inline 000654654 m on + tunnel,weapons development 000000000 unknown yield 668 - 3668 dmy 1985 7 25 03:11:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 152 49.8157 78.0096 668 - 3 inline 000654654 m on + tunnel,safety experiment 000000000 unknown yield 668 - 4668 dmy 1985 7 25 03:11:09.1 ALMT (6 hrs) Degelen, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: 152 49.8157 78.0096 668 - 4 inline 000654654 m on + tunnel,safety experiment 000000000 unknown yield note References RFNC-VNIIEF 1996 USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990 Sarov, Russia The official Russian list of Soviet tests. 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