What the records say
- When
- 16 Oct 1964
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 22
- Where
- Lop Nor
- Coordinates
- 41.50° N, 89.00° E
- Yield kt
- 22
- Type
- tower
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
3 sources record it
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “596 (nuclear test): The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “première bombe atomique chinoise”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page