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Project 596 (Miss Qiu, Chinese: 邱小姐; pinyin: 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.
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 ...
Zhou Enlai announces the success of China's atomic bomb test in 1964. A celebration of Chinese nuclear missile tests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1966. Mao Zedong referred to nuclear weapons as a paper tiger which, although they would not determine the outcome of a war, could still be used by great powers to scare and coerce.
The foremost list of Chinese tests compiled by the Federation of American Scientists ... 596 First test – October 16, 1964; ... to have been a nuclear test in space
The first Chinese nuclear bomb test, codenamed "Project 596", occurred at Lop Nur on 16 October 1964. China detonated its first hydrogen bomb on 17 June 1967. Until 1996, 45 nuclear tests were conducted.
The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July 1945, and then dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese c.
Able to carry a single 1-megaton nuclear warhead and possibly multiple MRVs, the JL-3 is believed to have a range of over 6,200 miles — putting the American West Coast in range of Chinese SLBM's ...
National Tsinghua University in Taiwan is reestablished where the university built the nation's first research nuclear reactor and began training atomic energy specialists. [2] 1964: Taiwan launched a nuclear weapons program after the first Chinese nuclear test in October 1964. [2] 1964