Mao's remark is the second nuclear statement issued by China in this month. On October 10, Sun Xiaobo, director general of the Department of Arms Control under the Chinese Foreign Ministry, urged nuclear-armed countries to commit to no first-use of nukes.

In 1701, Yale University was founded. In 1793, following her conviction for treason, French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was beheaded on the Place de la Revolution. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry,

Marking the 60th anniversary of its first atomic bomb test, China has called on nuclear-armed nations to adopt a no-first-use policy, reinforcing its own stance on limiting the threat of nuclear escalation.