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NUCLEAR TESTING HISTORY AND EVIDENCE

Tests, Devices, Detonations, and Combat-Record Scope

A unit guide for comparing official test totals, device counts, event rows, grouped detonations, peaceful explosions, safety experiments, and wartime nuclear detonations.

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Confidence: Source-bounded
Sources: 3
Independent corroboration: 0
Jurisdiction: Global / claim- and source-specific
Date range: Source scope varies; currentness is claim-specific and remains review-bound
Review: Repository-authored WIP.34 review preparation — claim-specific source, specialist, scientific, legal, health, affected-community, accessibility, privacy, and currentness review remain pending

Estimated reading: 14 minutes
Review date: 2026-07-25
Stable route: /international/nuclear-testing/test-device-detonation-and-combat-record-scope

Source boundary · evidence boundary

HISTORICAL DATASET CLAIM — SOURCE REVIEW REQUIRED MODELED RELATIONSHIP — NOT A FORECAST SOURCE-AUTHORED PROJECTION — NOT A SITE FORECAST POLICY PROPOSAL — NOT IMPLEMENTED HERE Exact source preservation and deterministic counts do not authenticate claims. Repeated files are not independent corroboration. No participant data, no upload, no free-text case ingestion, no private-person record, no network request, no persistence, no analytics, and no model call. No output grants approval, authentication, specialist disposition, publication authority, operational authority, production approval, activation authority, or tuning authority.

LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

A number can be internally correct and still misleading when its unit or inclusion universe is hidden.

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Three key points

The same event row can represent multiple devices, while one operation can contain many event rows.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are retained in the combined detonation dataset as wartime detonations, not tests.
Matching totals do not prove matching universes; the U.S. 1,032 figure still requires record-level scope review.

LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Event-row scope

An event-level catalog row is a source convention. It may aggregate multiple devices or represent a special experiment rather than a standard weapons test.

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Device-level scope

A device count answers how many devices detonated, not how many test dates, operations, or independently verified events occurred.

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Wartime detonation scope

Combat use is legally, historically, and ethically distinct from a test program and must remain a separate event class.

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Comparison rule

Compare like with like, or publish a mapping table that explains the conversion and unresolved differences.

LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

The source corpus remains user-supplied research and data, not independently authenticated institutional authority.
A reproduced count verifies the transform against exact bytes, not the historical accuracy or completeness of the source.
Current institutional, legal, scientific, public-health, and policy statements may change and require date-stamped review.
Model output, projection, and proposal language can create false certainty if assumptions and implementation state are hidden.
No page or workbench authorizes diagnosis, monitoring, targeting, publication, production, activation, tuning, or operational action.

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Evidence and review connections

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Glossary cross-reference

Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.

event-level record device-level count grouped detonation wartime detonation counting universe scope reconciliation

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Decision matrix

Claim-state publication matrix
Claim state	Acceptable wording	Prohibited implication
Exact dataset count	“The exact supplied dataset contains…” with unit and revision.	Historical completeness, independent verification, or identical scope with another total.
Source-authored observation or estimate	“The source reports/estimates…” with population, period, and uncertainty.	Universal fact, individual attribution, or causation beyond the study design.
Modeled relationship	MODELED RELATIONSHIP — NOT A FORECAST Explain inputs, assumptions, outputs, validation, and transfer.	Live forecast, guaranteed arrival, or automatic action.
Projection or proposal	SOURCE-AUTHORED PROJECTION — NOT A SITE FORECAST / POLICY PROPOSAL — NOT IMPLEMENTED HERE	Site forecast, deployment claim, authority, or inevitability.

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Publication audit checklist

Unit and scope

Are counting unit, population, period, geography, and comparison explicit?

Pass condition: The claim can be reproduced without silently changing its universe.

Origin and independence

Are source instances separated from unique evidence origins?

Pass condition: Duplicate and derivative files are not counted as corroboration.

State and currentness

Is observation, estimate, model, projection, or proposal status visible with a review date?

Pass condition: Mutable claims have currentness and expiration triggers.

Authority and correction

Are correction dependencies and authority limits explicit?

Pass condition: No result implies approval or action and every material change has a propagation path.

LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

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Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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