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The atomic bomb was a part of China's "Two Bombs, One Satellite" program. It had a yield of 22 kilotons, comparable to the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb RDS-1 in 1949 and the American Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. [4] With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power in the world.
Chinese Nuclear Weapon Tests Project 596 was the first ever Chinese nuclear explosion. Information Country China Test site Area A (Nanshan), Lop Nur, China; Area B (Qinggir), Lop Nur, China; Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, China; Area D (Drop Area), Lop Nur, China Period 1964–1996 Number of tests 47 Test type air drop, atmospheric, cratering, high alt rocket (30–80 km), parachuted, tower ...
The first target of nuclear weapons, the Mark I atomic bomb. The target was the Aioi Bridge across the Ōta River; it exploded several hundred yards off. Hiroshima was a city of 250,000, suffering 70,000 or so deaths immediately and up to 126,000 by the end of the year. Nagasaki, Japan
'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'
The People's Republic of China conducted 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, all conducted at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang) 596 First test – October 16, 1964; Film is now available of 1966 tests here at time 09:00 [24] and another test later in this film. Test No. 6, First hydrogen bomb test – June 17, 1967
On October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in Lop Nur (code-name "Project 596"), making China the fifth country in the world to possess nuclear weapons. [ 10 ] On October 27, 1966, China's first surface-to-surface missile ( Dongfeng-2 ) carrying nuclear bomb was successfully launched and detonated.
But going forward, students of history will have one less chance to see the place where the first nuclear bomb test once lit up the sky, a pivotal moment in World War II and an omen of future ...
The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. [4] Tests continued until 1996, when the country signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), but did not ratify it. [ 5 ]