China Nuclear Program

China did 45 nuclear tests.

January 1955 : President Mao start the China Nuke Program. Ph Qian Sanqing would be the chinese A-bomb father.

April 1955 : Russia sign his first of six nuclear agreements with China, and say that she will help China in his nuclear program.

Mars 1956 : Hundreds and hundreds of Chicoms scientists receive a scientific formation in Moscow ( Nuclear Research Facility of Dubna ). In the same time, research on nuclear weapons become a priority in China.

October 1957 : During a President Mao trip in Moscow, USSR agree on a new pact with China. USSR will give 1 Russian A-bomb and her technicals details to China.

June 1959 : Nuclear co-operation between USSR & China stop suddenly. China and USSR are not agree anymore and have differents opposites points of views.

October,16 1964 : China test his first A-bomb in the Lop Nor Desert, N.O of China.

December,28 1966 : China have the H-bomb technology.

June,17 1967 : First Chinese H-bomb test.

December,27 1968 : China test a 3 megatons A-bomb at Lop Nor Facility.

September,29 1969 : China test another 3 megatons A-bomb at Lop Nor Faclity.

October,14 1970 : China test a 3 megatons H-bomb.

1980 : China do her last atmospherical test. Now, all chineses test would be underground tests.

1988 : Washington say that China have the neutrons bombs, and already tested it in an underground test, but Peking do not confirm.

Jully,29 1996 : 45th and last chinese nuke test. A 1 kt test.It suggest that China have the know-how to build a mini-nuke. ( less than 1 Kt )

September,24 1996 : China sign the International Treaty who ban the nuke tests.

December 1998 : China is the fourth nuke power ( Source : Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ) and she have more than 450 nukes warheads & bombs.

January 1999 : China is accused to have stole US nukes secrets in the 80' and 90'.

May,25 1999 : The US representative Christopher Knox accuse Peking. China have spyed the US nukes program since the 70' and have stole many US military secrets ( a-bomb, h-bomb, neutrons bomb ). China deny the allegations.

July,15 1999 : China recognized publicly that she have the neutrons bombs and the mini-nukes technology, but China is still denying the Cox Report

They have FOBS technology too so they can bomb anywhere in the world

Originally posted by KKing123
They have FOBS technology too so they can bomb anywhere in the world

A good reason to have an ABM shield !

Well, we all know this is a result of Clinton's lax technology transfer enforcement.
FOBS technology is some 35 years old now, and would allow plenty of time for an interception. In that regards it's a hollow threat, as well the accuracy is diminished.

The Chinese nuclear weapons program begun in the late 1950s was part of the Liǎngdàn Yīxīng (Two Bombs, One Satellite) initiative devised to transform China into not only a nuclear weapons state in response to Mao Zedong's position that the US was threatening the People's Republic of China with nuclear blackmail but also a spacefaring country. The renowned Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, who was deported to his homeland by the US government in the early 1950s during the time of McCarthyism, but also Yao Tongbin, not only took part in designing the first Chinese nuclear weapons but also were involved in design of China's first nuclear-armed ballistic missile, the Dongfeng-2 (DF-2; DoD designation CSS-2) and the first Chinese spacecraft, the Dong Fang Hong 1 (which beamed back from orbit a Chinese propaganda song of the same name).

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