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The Soviet Union's 1953 nuclear test series was a group of 5
nuclear test Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to signal strength. Bec ...
s conducted in 1953. These tests followed the '' 1949-51 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the ''
1954 Soviet nuclear tests The Soviet Union's 1954 nuclear test series was a group of 10 nuclear tests conducted in 1954. These tests followed the ''1953 Soviet nuclear tests'' series and preceded the '' 1955 Soviet nuclear tests'' series. References {{reflist, refs= ...
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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
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