This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-06-17 08:16
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On June 17, 1967, China successfully exploded its first hydrogen bomb in the Lop Nur Desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The successful test shook the world as it had taken only two years and eight months for China to develop a hydrogen bomb after testing its first atomic bomb in October 1964.
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