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- During the summer of 1964, the discovery through satellite photography of a test site led to speculation that Beijing would soon stage a nuclear test.
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Project 596 (Miss Qiu (Chinese: 邱小姐, Qiū Xiǎojiě) as the callsign, Chic-1 by the US intelligence agencies) was the first nuclear weapons test conducted by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site.
Oct 16, 2014 · The first Chinese nuclear test, 16 October 1964, had an explosive yield of 22 kilotons (Photo from Web site of Comprehensive Test Ban Organization)
Only ten years after its conception, the Chinese nuclear weapons complex successfully tested its first uranium-based atomic bomb on October 16, 1964. The test bomb utilized highly-enriched uranium that was produced at the Lanzhou enrichment facility, and was dropped at the Lop Nur Test Site.
Jul 19, 2018 · China tested its first H-bomb bomb on June 17, 1967, with a force of 3.3 megatons. China acquired thermonuclear weapons only 32 months after its first atomic bomb test, much faster than the United States (over 7 years after its first test) and the Soviet Union (almost 4 years after its first test) took to build their respective hydrogen bombs.
Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, at least eight nations have detonated 2,056 nuclear test explosions at dozens of test sites, including Lop Nor in China, the atolls of the Pacific, Nevada, Algeria where France conducted its first nuclear device, western Australia where the U.K. exploded nuclear weapons, the South Atlantic...
On October 16th 1964 the Chinese government issued the following statement, announcing its first successful test of an atomic weapon: “China exploded an atomic bomb at 1500 hours on October 16th 1964, thereby successfully carrying out its first nuclear test.
May 13, 2024 · Published on : 14/05/2024. On May 14, 1965, China successfully conducted its first atomic bomb aerial explosion test, which was also China's second nuclear test.
