The United States's Praetorian nuclear test series was a group of 19

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 1981–1982. These tests A 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". followed the ''

Operation Guardian Operation Guardian was a series of 14 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1980–1981 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the ''Operation Tinderbox'' series and preceded the ''Operation Praetorian'' series. Referenc ...

'' series and preceded the ''

Operation Phalanx The United States's Phalanx nuclear test series was a group of 18 nuclear tests conducted in 1982–1983. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual expl ...

'' series.

List of the nuclear tests

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