Winston
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A far too rapid and failure-free progression than would result without significant help from the Soviets and/or significant espionage data obtained from the US and/or Soviets. Key Intermediate tests apparently not conducted. I guess they've always been great at IP theft.
More recently:
China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets - Updated February 1, 2006
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL30143.pdf
Chinese Nuclear Testing Film (1966) [enjoy, praise, and display cheerful revolutionary spirit... or you will be disappeared]
Nuclear Weapons Tests of China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_China
1st test shown - 335 ft tower shot; 22 kt; pure-fission U-235 implosion fission device named "596." The device weighed 1,550 kg (3,420 lb). No plutonium was available at that time.
2nd test shown - 1,600 ft air drop; 35 kt; militarized version of 596 dropped by Hong-6 [seems to be fusion fast neutrons boosted - W]
3rd test shown - 2,648 ft air drop; 250 kt; first use of lithium-6 in a Soviet sloika (layer cake) design (other source says it was boosted fission); probably test of a thermonuclear primary.
First Chinese Thermonuclear Bomb - June 17th 1967, at 8:20am
Narration:
"Bomb away!"
"The hydrogen bomb gently falls toward the ground. It will be exploding 2900 meters above ground level"
"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonate!"
"June 17th 1967, at 8:20am, our nation's first hydrogen bomb achieved success!"
"A brightness appears by the fireball. It is indeed the sun."
"From the first atomic explosion to the first thermo-nuclear explosion, it took USA 7 years 3 months, took the Soviet Union 4 years, took the United Kingdom 4 years 7 months (translator's note: france had not exploded hydrogen at this time). Our nation worked just over 2 years to achieve the momentus leap from atomic to hydrogen."
"We now know in 1952, USA exploded a 65 ton, 3 story high aparratus. When the Soviet Union air dropped its first hydrogen bomb in 1953, the explosive force was 400 kilotons. Our nation during this test used a small size, low weight, mega-ton level bomb to destroy a designated target. This proves once again the Chinese people can do what foreigners can do, and we can do it better!"
"Looking towards the enormous mushroom cloud rising into the sky, Marshal Lie exclaimed, three million tons, enough, that's quite enough!"
Chinese Nuclear Gravity Bombs [many photos]
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke-gravity.htm
Nuclear Weapons Systems in China (1984)
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB19/docs/doc09.pdf
China's Nuclear Weapons
Present Capabilities (2001)
https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/China/ChinaArsenal.html
More recently:
China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets - Updated February 1, 2006
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL30143.pdf
Chinese Nuclear Testing Film (1966) [enjoy, praise, and display cheerful revolutionary spirit... or you will be disappeared]
Nuclear Weapons Tests of China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_China
1st test shown - 335 ft tower shot; 22 kt; pure-fission U-235 implosion fission device named "596." The device weighed 1,550 kg (3,420 lb). No plutonium was available at that time.
2nd test shown - 1,600 ft air drop; 35 kt; militarized version of 596 dropped by Hong-6 [seems to be fusion fast neutrons boosted - W]
3rd test shown - 2,648 ft air drop; 250 kt; first use of lithium-6 in a Soviet sloika (layer cake) design (other source says it was boosted fission); probably test of a thermonuclear primary.
First Chinese Thermonuclear Bomb - June 17th 1967, at 8:20am
Narration:
"Bomb away!"
"The hydrogen bomb gently falls toward the ground. It will be exploding 2900 meters above ground level"
"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonate!"
"June 17th 1967, at 8:20am, our nation's first hydrogen bomb achieved success!"
"A brightness appears by the fireball. It is indeed the sun."
"From the first atomic explosion to the first thermo-nuclear explosion, it took USA 7 years 3 months, took the Soviet Union 4 years, took the United Kingdom 4 years 7 months (translator's note: france had not exploded hydrogen at this time). Our nation worked just over 2 years to achieve the momentus leap from atomic to hydrogen."
"We now know in 1952, USA exploded a 65 ton, 3 story high aparratus. When the Soviet Union air dropped its first hydrogen bomb in 1953, the explosive force was 400 kilotons. Our nation during this test used a small size, low weight, mega-ton level bomb to destroy a designated target. This proves once again the Chinese people can do what foreigners can do, and we can do it better!"
"Looking towards the enormous mushroom cloud rising into the sky, Marshal Lie exclaimed, three million tons, enough, that's quite enough!"
Chinese Nuclear Gravity Bombs [many photos]
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/nuke-gravity.htm
Nuclear Weapons Systems in China (1984)
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB19/docs/doc09.pdf
China's Nuclear Weapons
Present Capabilities (2001)
https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/China/ChinaArsenal.html
