China Detonates Powerful Nuclear Device
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Science, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Military History, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: China
- Date: May 21, 1992
Article abstract: China revived the Cold War threat of international nuclear war with the explosion of one of the most powerful nuclear devices ever tested.
The Explosion
On May 21, 1992, China detonated a one-megaton nuclear device at its underground testing site in the far western deserts of Xinjiang Province. The blast, equal in force to one million tons of TNT, was seventy times as powerful as that from the bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945. Shock waves from the massive explosion were detected eighteen hundred miles away in Hong...
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