Project 596 (Miss Qiu, Chinese: 邱小姐; pinyin: Qiū Xiǎojiě, as the callsign; Chic-1 by the US intelligence agencies) was the first nuclear test of the nuclear weapons program of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site in...
639 (CIA designation: CHIC-6) 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...
Lanzhou uranium enrichment plant (Chinese official name: CNNC Lanzhou Uranium Enrichment Co., Ltd., weapon program codename: Plant 504) is the largest uranium enrichment plant in China. It currently produces enriched uranium for China's fleet of...
The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is India's imagery intelligence organisation, under the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It started functioning in November 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War, as an extension of the Intelligence Bureau,...
The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by divergences that arose from their different...
596L (CIA designation: CHIC-3) 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...
Indonesia currently does not possess any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) such as nuclear weapons nor does it have the capability to develop them. However, the country has natural resources suitable for nuclear energy production, such as uranium...
Lop Nur or Lop Nor (Uyghur: لوپنۇر, Oirat: ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫᠨᡇᡇᠷ, romanized: Lob nuur, from an Oirat Mongolic name meaning "Lop Lake", where "Lop" is a toponym of unknown origin) is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in...
Project management is the process of supervising the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The...
Two Bombs, One Satellite (Chinese: 两弹一星; pinyin: liǎng dàn, yī xīng) is a retronym for the early nuclear weapon, ballistic missile, and artificial satellite development of the People's Republic of China, coined by the Chinese government in 1999....