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How North Korea's Nuclear Tests Could Get Even More Terrifying

North Korea has so far tested its missiles and its nukes separately. But some experts worry Pyongyang may decide to put the two together into a single test.
In May 1962, the U.S. conducted its first and only test of a nuclear-tipped missile. Some worry North Korea could try something similar.

At 2:17 p.m. on May 6, 1962, a nuclear-tipped missile shot out of the waters of the Pacific Ocean and quickly disappeared into the sky. Roughly 12 minutes later and over 1,000 miles to the southwest, it detonated in a blinding flash — creating a mushroom cloud over an empty stretch of water.

The test was of . It was code-named "," and it was America's first, and only, end-to-end

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