Mao Tse-Tung3 June 1960
Communist China launches its first ballistic missile
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Communist China launches its first ballistic missile
China successfully tests its own atomic bomb, becomes the world's 5th nuclear power
Communist China becomes the fifth nuclear power
China tests its first nuclear missile
China explodes its first hydrogen bomb
Chinas first underground atomic explosion takes place
A second hydrogen bomb is exploded in the Taklamakan Desert
Reveals to the World that China has DF-21 intermediate range ballistic missiles
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