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Nuclear Explosions

This week's data is from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, by way of data is plural with credit to Jesus Castagnetto for sharing the dataset.

Additional information can be found on Wikipedia or via the original report PDF.

Additional related datasets can be found at Our World in Data.

For details around units for yield/magnitude, please see the Nuclear Yield formulas.

Get the data!

nuclear_explosions <- readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2019/2019-08-20/nuclear_explosions.csv")

Data Dictionary

nuclear_explosions.csv

variable class description
date_long date ymd date
year double year of explosion
id_no double unique ID
country character Country deploying the nuclear device
region character Region where nuclear device was deployed
source character Source the reported the explosion event
latitude double Latitude position
longitude double Longitude position
magnitude_body double Body wave magnitude of explosion (mb)
magnitude_surface double Surface wave magnitude of explosion (Ms)
depth double Depth at detonation in Km (could be underground or above ground) -- please note that positive = depth (below ground), while negative = height (above ground)
yield_lower double Explosion yield lower estimate in kilotons of TNT
yield_upper double Explosion yield upper estimate in kilotons of TNT
purpose character Purpose of detonation: COMBAT (WWII bombs dropped over Japan), FMS (Soviet test, study phenomenon of nuclear explosion), ME (Military Exercise), PNE (Peaceful nuclear explosion), SAM (Soviet test, accidental mode/emergency), SSE (French/US tests - testing safety of nuclear weapons in case of accident), TRANSP (Transportation-storage purposes), WE (British, French, US, evaluate effects of nuclear detonation on various targets), WR (Weapons development program)
name character Name of event or bomb
type character type - method of deployment -- ATMOSPH (Atmospheric), UG (underground), BALLOON (Balloon drop), AIRDROP (Airplane deployed), ROCKET (Rocket deployed), TOWER (deplyed at top of constructed tower), WATERSURFACE (on surface of body of water), BARGE (on barge boat), SURFACE (on surface or in shallow crater), UW (Underwater), SHAFT (Vertical Shaft underground), TUNNEL/GALLERY (Horizontal tunnel)