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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA EXPLODES ITS FIRST A-BOMB
October 16th, 1964

Communist China, just ten years after being in a land war with the United States, successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon. How many weapons of mass destruction the Chinese may possess is unknown to American intelligence.