1953 in military history

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 American nuclear weapons test

1953 U.S. nuclear test

1953 atomic tests in South Australia