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    Project 596 ( Miss Qiu ( Chinese: 邱小姐, Qiū Xiǎojiě) as the callsign, [1] Chic-1 by the US intelligence agencies [2]) 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. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade uranium ( U ...

  2. Oct 16, 2014 · The aircraft used in the collection mission flew from bases in the Pacific, North Africa, and the United Kingdom. Washington, D.C., October 16, 2014 – Fifty years ago today, on 16 October 1964, the People's Republic of China (PRC) joined the nuclear club when it tested a nuclear device at its Lop Nur test site in Inner Mongolia.

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  3. Oct 28, 2014 · Here's How The US Reacted To China's First Nuclear Test 50 Years Ago . Armin Rosen. 2014-10-28T22:36:00Z ... If there was one big loser in China's nuclear test, it was Taiwan. In 1964, the island ...

  4. December 20, 1968. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT [a] (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project . The test was of an implosion-design plutonium bomb, nicknamed the "gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated ...

  5. Jul 16, 2015 · Trinity was only the first nuclear detonation of the summer of 1945. Two more followed, in early August, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing as many as a quarter of a million people. By October ...

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  6. Oct 13, 2021 · As late as April 1964 (just six months before the test), Taiwan’s leaders were urging U.S. airstrikes to eliminate Beijing’s nuclear program. Once the test was completed, China quickly announced it to the world in a statement: China exploded an atom bomb at 1500 hours [China Time] on Oct. 16, 1964, and thereby conducted successfully its ...

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  8. China. First nuclear test: Oct. 16, 1964 Most recent nuclear test: July 29, 1996 Total tests: 43 (22 underground) China is widely thought to be helping Pakistan with its nuclear efforts. India. First nuclear test: May 18, 1974 Most recent nuclear test: May 13, 1998 Total tests: 7. In 1966, India declared it could produce nuclear weapons within ...

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