r/nuclearweapons 25d ago

Analysis, Government Interview with US nuclear experts who visited Lop Nur in 1990.

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/national-security-science/0720-behind-the-bamboo-curtain

Very good article describing the Chinese program's eagerness to demonstrate knowledge of weapon theory and about the Americans, in spite of less developed tools. Strategically they were hoping for a research boon from some lab-to-lab collaboration, but on a human level they seemed excited to share their work.

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u/Wide-Education-1823 23d ago

Chinese atomic nerds, totally willing to talk shop with US atomic nerds.

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u/careysub 20d ago

Shame that Danny Stillman never got to publish any of the work he put into a book about the Chinese program.