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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.
- 16 October 1964
- Lop Nur Test Base
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...
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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 ...
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.
Oct 16, 2014 · East Asia. Project. Nuclear Vault. 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.
Dec 20, 2023 · China conducted its first underground nuclear test in 1969. At first, Beijing used shallow horizontal tunnels. It was a relative latecomer to drilling vertical shafts that were deep...
Jul 19, 2018 · Mao officially authorized the Chinese atomic bomb project in January 1955, largely in response to the American nuclear threat. As Mao affirmed, “We need the atom bomb. If our nation does not want to be intimidated, we have to have this thing” (Chansoria 80). Early Development.