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Sierra Bouchér

How many nuclear bombs have been used?

A large mushroom cloud in a blue and orange sky. Operation Ivy Hydrogen Bomb Test in Marshall Islands. .

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to the detonations of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just weeks later. Since then, at least seven other countries have tested their own weapons, unleashing radiation around the world.

But how many nuclear bombs have actually gone off?

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