The June 17, 1967 test of device 639 was the culmination of China's breakneck development of the hydrogen bomb. (via UCSB)
In less than seven years, Chinese physicists went from launching a new hydrogen bomb research program to desperately searching foreign newspapers for any details about the H-bomb to successfully detonating a full-yield 3.3 megaton hydrogen bomb. In this feature article, a Chinese scholar tells the untold story of China’s hydrogen bomb development.
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This is a well written, comprehensive article where one does not have to be a nuclear physicist or nuclear weapons scientist/engineer to understand it. The illustrations are fantastic. In my opinion, this is the best account of the Red Chinese thermonuclear weapons development I have read. I would like to see a book on this subject published by Hui Zhang.