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The great leader Chairman Mao pointed out as early as in June, 1958: "I think it is entirely possible for us to make some atom and hydrogen bombs within ten years." In the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China succeeded in conducting four thermal nuclear tests. Photo shows the successful explosion of China's first hydrogen bomb on June 17, 1967.