Operation Mike and the First Thermonuclear Bomb Test | Britannica

Physic Hub on Instagram: "China’s First H-Bomb Test: A Cold War Superpower Enters the Nuclear Elite 🇨🇳 --- On June 17, 1967, China successfully detonated its first hydrogen bomb, becoming the fourth country in the world to master thermonuclear weapons — just 32 months after its first atomic bomb test in 1964. Codenamed "Test No. 6", the detonation occurred at Lop Nur in the Xinjiang region and had a yield of approximately 3.3 megatons — that’s over 200 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bo