To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 |
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... bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . On August 8 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan , and the Russian armies moved into Manchuria . On August 9 an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . On August 10 Japan made a tentative offer of sur ...
... bomb was dropped on Hiroshima . On August 8 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan , and the Russian armies moved into Manchuria . On August 9 an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . On August 10 Japan made a tentative offer of sur ...
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... bomb for China . China wanted and needed the Bomb - this was the terrible legacy of the Western technological civilizations , their high point and their nadir , the most ambiguous and the most challenging of all scientific breakthroughs ...
... bomb for China . China wanted and needed the Bomb - this was the terrible legacy of the Western technological civilizations , their high point and their nadir , the most ambiguous and the most challenging of all scientific breakthroughs ...
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... bomb did not make China a nuclear power ; the world watched to see if China could follow it up with a sophisticated development program . A second bomb , of about the same size , was tested in May 1965. A third , tested in May 1966 ...
... bomb did not make China a nuclear power ; the world watched to see if China could follow it up with a sophisticated development program . A second bomb , of about the same size , was tested in May 1965. A third , tested in May 1966 ...
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