• Nuclear tests

• ID number--sequential number in listing
• Shot name--Chinese name
• Shot code--
  • S--salvo test, first listed detonation
  • SS--salvo test, additional detonations
  • X--not included in some listings
• Year, month, day (GMT)
• Time (GMT)
• Site--
  • LN--Lop Nor
    • LN-A--Lop Nor, area "A"
    • LN-B--Lop Nor, area "B"
    • LN-C--Lop Nor, area "C"
    • LN-D--Lop Nor, area "D"
• Latitude (° N) and Longitude (° E)
• Location code
• Hole designation--shaft or tunnel number
• Height of burst--negative indicates depth
• Ground zero altitude
• Ground zero code
• Type of detonation--
  • A--atmospheric
    • A-AD--airdrop
    • A-R--rocket or missile
  • AS--atmospheric, surface
    • AS-T--tower
  • UG--underground
    • UG-S--shaft
    • UG-T-tunnel
• Purpose--
  • WR--nuclear weapons related
• Yield, minimum and maximum--in kt, Western figures
• Yield, estimated--in kt, reported figures from unofficial or Western sources
• Yield notes
• Yield, preferred value
• Magnitude Mb--seismic
• Crater--diameter in meters
• Vented--radioactivity release in curies
• Device
  • ER--enhanced radiation
  • FZ--fizzile
  • IC--implosion, composite core
  • IP--implosion, plutonium core
  • IU--implosion, uranium core
  • TN--thermonuclear, multistage (number indicates % fission)
• Warhead
• Sponsor
• Reported
• Notes
• Sources--see list below

Sources for PRC test list:

• 1 = Yang, Xiaoping, Robert North, and Carl Romney, Aug. 2000, "CMR Nuclear Explosion Database (Revision 3)," on line, SMDC Monitoring Research [http://www.rdss.info/database/nucex/report/explosion.pdf].
• 2 = CNS, June 1998, "China's nuclear tests: dates, yields, types, methods, and comments," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, on line [http://cns.miis.edu/research/china/coxrep/testlist.htm].
• 3 = Norris, Robert S., Andrew S. Burrows, and Richard W. Fieldhouse, 1994, Nuclear Weapons Databook, Vol. 5: British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons, Westview Press (Boulder, CO).
• 4 = Gupta, Vipin, 1995, "Locating nuclear explosions at the Chinese test site near Lop Nor," Science and Global Security, 5:205-244.
• a = Won-Young Kim, Paul G. Richards, Vitaly Adushkin, and Vladimir Ovtchinnikov, April 2001, "Borovoye digital seismogram archive for underground nuclear tests during 1966-1996," LDEO, on line [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/Monitoring/Data/Brv_arch_ex/brv_text_table.pdf].
• b = SMDC, 2004, "Nuclear explosion database," SMDC Monitoring Research Program, on line, [http://www.rdss.info/index_ie.html].
• c = Lewis, Jeffrey, 2004, "The minimum means of reprisal: China's search for security in the nuclear age," Ph. D. dissertation, on line
• d = Murphy, John, 18 Sept. 1992, "Yield estimation and bias at the Chinese Lop Nor test site," 14th Annual PL/DARPA Seismic Research Symposium.
• e = Andryushin, L. A., N. P. Voloshin, R. I. Ilkaev, A. M. Matushchenko, L. D. Ryabev, V. G. Strukov, A. K. Chernyshev, and Yu. A. Yudin, 1999, Catalog of Worldwide Nuclear Testing, RFNC-VNIIEF (Sarov, Russia), on line at Institute of Strategic Stability [http://www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/index.htm].
• f = Lewis, Jeffrey, 3 April 2009, "Subcritical testing at Lop Nor," on line at Arms Control Wonk.com [http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2239/subcritical-testing-at-lop-nor]
• g = CIA, Nov. 1995, "Special issue on advanced conventional weapons...," Proliferation Digest, excised version on line at Arms Control Wonk.com [http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/file_download/168/Proliferation_Digest_November_1995.pdf].
• h = Gertz, Bill, and Rowan Scarborough, 7 Dec. 2001, "Chinese nuclear 'event'," The Washington Times, p. A9.
• i = Gertz, Bill, 11 May 2001, "Chinese believed preparing for a nuclear weapons test; Controlled underground explosion likely in a few days," The Washington Times, p. A5.