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Oct 16, 2014 · 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.
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.
On October 16, 1964, the People’s Republic of China conducted its first nuclear test, making it the fifth nuclear-armed state after the USA, the USSR, Britain and France. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device, yield of 22 kilotons. A collection of nuclear test photographs from Project 596.
Oct 28, 2014 · On October 16, 1964, China tested its first nuclear weapon, a 16-kiloton bomb detonated at the Lop Nur facility in Inner Mongolia. Documents recently published by George Washington...
Prior to that date and during the sixties, China carried out numerous experiments on animals, tanks, planes, trains to test the effects of the new arsenal. These rare film images show some of the Chinese tests. However, China hasn’t fired a nuclear weapon since 1996.
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.
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Dec 20, 2023 · The early tests were capped by mushroom clouds and radioactive fallout. China conducted its first underground nuclear test in 1969. At first, Beijing used shallow horizontal tunnels.
