Explosions in 1953

Attack against Palestinian civillians

series of 1950s US nuclear tests

RDS-6s (; American codename: "Joe 4") was the first Soviet test of a boosted fission weapon that occurred on August 12, 1953, that detonated with an energy equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT.

RDS-4 (, also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately . The device was approximately one-third the size of the RDS-3. The bomb was dropped from an IL-28 aircraft at an altitude of and exploded at , with a yield of 28 kt.

1953 U.S. test of a nuclear artillery weapon

series of United States military training exercises conducted alongside nuclear tests

1953 U.S. nuclear test

1953 American nuclear weapons test

1953 attack on Israeli civilians by Palestinian Arab fedayeen