Testing a live nuclear warhead on an actual ballistic missile is risky from many perspectives, which is why US only did it once in Cold War.
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Operation Dominic shot Frigate Bird is only ballistic+nuclear test by US.
MacKenzie has a great discussion of why it was done (meant to quell uncertainty, didn't quite do that) in Inventing Accuracy, as an aside!
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meanwhile, in Russia :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_219
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