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China Successfully Tests Non-Nuclear Hydrogen Bomb with Sustained Fireball Technology

  • Chinese researchers successfully tested a non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, creating a fireball over 1,000 degrees Celsius that lasted over two seconds, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
  • The hydrogen bomb's explosion lasted 15 times longer than a similar strength TNT blast without nuclear materials, according to the study published in the Chinese Journal of Missiles and Guidance.
  • U.S. intelligence agencies are monitoring activities in China's Xinjiang region, as reported by The Financial Times, due to concerns about China’s growing nuclear capabilities.
  • James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment noted that advancements in hydrogen bomb technology could signal a strategic message to the U.S. and its allies about Beijing's deterrence strategy.
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The bomb, weighing 2 kilograms, would be able to trigger devastating chain chemical reactions without using any nuclear material. That's what we know

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Chinese investigators successfully detonated a weapon that generates a prolonged explosion

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When you hear about a hydrogen bomb or H bomb, by history manuals, you can take us back to 1952, in the middle of the Cold War, when the U.S. was called the world’s most powerful bomb destroyer than the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So they became the first country to test the hydrogen bomb. However, now Chinese researchers have announced that they have successfully tested an explosive device based on hydrogen in a controlled f…

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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
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