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  • 2 - Use of Nuclear Weapons

  • Stuart Casey-Maslen, University of Pretoria
  • Book:
    Nuclear Weapons
    Published online:
    14 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021, pp 52-66

  • Summary

    This chapter describes the use of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices. To date, the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 is the only hostile use of nuclear weapons by one State against another. But in the 1960s to 1980s, around 160 nuclear explosive devices were detonated for so-called ‘peaceful purposes’. Also described is the Cuban missile crisis as well as broken arrow incidents in which major accidents occurred with nuclear weapons.