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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.
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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 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...
China conducted its last test on July 29, 1996. In 1998 both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons for the first time, although they also followed their tests with an informal moratorium. In October 2006 North Korea conducted a test of a nuclear device, although the extremely small yield suggested that this might have been a failure.
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...
1960-1980: China Independently Develops and Tests Nuclear Weapons and Missile Technology | Nuclear Weapons Education Project. Only ten years after its conception, the Chinese nuclear weapons complex successfully tested its first uranium-based atomic bomb on October 16, 1964.
Oct 16, 2014 · Project. The first Chinese nuclear test, 16 October 1964, had an explosive yield of 22 kilotons (Photo from Web site of Comprehensive Test Ban Organization) The Chinese test site at Lop Nur (or Lop Nor) as photographed on October 8, 1964 by a KH4-A satellite.
Nov 9, 2009 · On August 5, 1963, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer...
