What the records say
- When
- 17 Jun 1967
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 3,300
- Where
- Lop Nor
- Coordinates
- 40.80° N, 89.40° E
- Yield kt
- 3300
- Type
- airdrop
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Body wave magnitude
- 4.7
- Reported by
- ISC
Project 639
Sixth Chinese nuclear test, 1967
639 was the codename for China's first full-scale test of a two-staged thermonuclear device, on 17 June 1967, yielding 3.3 megatons of TNT. The sixth nuclear test carried out by the People's Republic of China, it was parachuted from a Xi'an H-6 bomber over the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base in Xinjiang, detonating at a height of 3 km.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
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