What the records say
- When
- 9 May 1966
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 250
- Where
- Lop Nor
- Coordinates
- 41.50° N, 89.00° E
- Yield kt
- 250
- Type
- airdrop
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Project 596L
1966 Chinese atmospheric nuclear test
596L was the third nuclear weapon test conducted by the People's Republic of China. Detonated on May 9, 1966, at Lop Nur, it was the first Chinese test to use thermonuclear reactions in a layer cake design, and yielded 220 kilotons of TNT.
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The source
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated