The first 8" rounds may have been test-fired, or those may have been training shapes to see if the shell was aerodynamic enough, while the actual shell was detonated from a tower (a la Trinity) or underground. The Soviets probably shot a few of their atomic shells at their test ranges in the '50s, I'd reckon.
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