Historical clue formulations

• Banned display of firepower, informally — 2020-05-03
• Bikini blast, briefly — 2018-07-22
• Much-criticized trial, briefly — 2018-06-29
• Big mushroom producer, in brief — 2016-03-18
• Bikini blast, briefly — 2016-01-27
• Trial that bombs, informally — 2015-07-05
• Headline event in India in 1974 and '98 — 2014-01-07
• Bikini blast, briefly — 2013-07-29
• Bikini event, briefly — 2013-04-19
• Mushroom cloud producer, in brief — 2013-02-12
• Cloud producer, for short — 2012-12-20
• Mushroom cloud creator, briefly — 2012-04-23
• Big blowout? — 2011-06-16
• Explosive trial, for short — 2010-09-26
• SALT subject — 2010-05-18
• Brief blowup, in "Big" — 2010-04-01
• Mushroom producer, for short — 2009-12-02
• Desert trial, for short — 2009-11-21
• Late 1940s event, in headlines — 2008-06-21
• Big bang creator — 2008-05-30
• Big bang creator — 2008-02-02
• Bygone explosion, in headlines — 2007-10-21
• Mushroom cloud creator, briefly — 2007-05-20
• Cause of an intl. incident, maybe — 2007-03-25
• Provocative military move, briefly — 2007-02-22
• Military trial, briefly — 2006-12-24
• SALT concern — 2006-08-08
• Event drawing intl. criticism — 2006-07-28
• Producer of a large mushroom — 2006-06-23
• Underground experiment, for short — 2005-11-13
• Event outlawed by intl. treaty — 2005-02-17
• Big blast, briefly — 2004-12-25
• Modern treaty violation — 2004-08-05
• Explosive trial — 2004-07-22
• SALT subject — 2003-04-10
• Bikini experiment, for short — 2003-02-11
• 1998 headline event in India — 2001-07-13
• Bikini experiment, for short — 1999-09-01
• Protested event — 1998-07-24
• Atomic bomb trial, briefly — 1995-08-06
• Military experiment, perhaps — 1995-03-14
• Underground event — 1994-09-09