According to the official information of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China’s first atomic bomb was successfully exploded on October 16, 1964; China’s first surface-to-surface missile equipped with a nuclear warhead was successfully exploded on October 27, 1966; China’s first hydrogen bomb was successfully tested on June 17, 1967; and China’s first artificial satellite was successfully launched on April 24, 1970.
So in less than 30 years since the CCP came to power, the CCP managed to build two bombs, the atomic bomb and later the hydrogen bomb, ballistic missiles, and an artificial satellite, which, if true, gives them some gloating rights.
The CCP itself admits that with the help of the Soviet Union, they were able to master the technology of the “Two Bombs — One Satellite” program in a brief period after they seized power. This leap is mainly attributed to 22 scientists whom returned to China from overseas. Several of them, after being persecuted, tortured, and killed, were posthumously considered “heroes” in the eyes of the CCP.
Massive cover-up surrounding the deaths
Many Chinese people do not realize that there was a massive cover-up surrounding the sordid deaths of some of these “heroes.” These “heroes” did not escape the persecution by the CCP during the so-called Cultural Revolution, and their ending was typical and tragic. Neither do the Chinese people know the reasons why the CCP focused on Qian Xuesen and Guo Yonghuai in their brainwashing documentary series Steel Hardened: 100 Years of the Communist Party of China was because the former was not persecuted due to him having special high-level protection, and the latter died before the Cultural Revolution.
What did these scientists know about the CCP wanting to be buried?
Here are some examples of the “heroes” whose lives ended tragically during the Cultural Revolution.
Yao Tongbin, a famous expert on missile and aerospace materials who had studied in the United Kingdom, was beaten to death by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, and the tragic scene made his wife heartbroken. What did he know that made him the target of such a gruesome murder?
Deng Jiaxian, a renowned nuclear physicist, and his wife, who had studied in the United States, were tortured at the same time during the Cultural Revolution. Deng’s wife, Xu Luxi, was a professor at Beijing Medical College. When Deng’s wife failed to return home, he went to the College to look for her. When he saw the tragic scene of his wife being tormented and traumatized, his heart was about to break.
Later, Deng Jiaxian’s third sister, whom Deng respected very much, was forced to commit suicide because she could not stand the endless torture by the rebels. Deng’s best student and researcher, Zhao Chu, who had solved an extremely complex functional equation in the most critical core technology of the nuclear bomb, was also tortured and criticized. He swallowed that unique function table and committed suicide.
As for Deng Jiaxian, who had participated in a total of 32 nuclear tests, he was afflicted with radiation poisoning for the rest of his life due to a lack of essential radiation protection and finally died of rectal cancer in 1986.
Qian Sanqiang, who studied in Paris, was one of the first generation of nuclear physicists in China and one of the pioneers and founders of China’s modern atomic energy industry. His equally outstanding wife, He Zehui, was sent to work at the “May 7 Cadre School” during the Cultural Revolution. At that time, Qian Sanqiang was already over 60 years old and unfamiliar with farm work, but he was forced to do heavy manual labor.
They awakened to the horror that occurred to humanity
Although the scientific experts returned to China with a passionate desire to serve their country, they were naïve politically and did not recognize the evil nature of the CCP. So everything they did objectively aided and abetted the regime to a great extent. The experience of many of them being persecuted helped people see clearly and reflect on the perils of cooperating with the CCP for themselves and the nation.
Perhaps Deng Jiaxian’s awakening before his death may serve as a warning to his students. On his deathbed in 1986, cadres sent by the central communist regime stood anxiously at his bedside, begging him in a pleading tone to reconstruct the functional equation. Deng replied: “When I closed my eyes, I saw Zhao Chu’s blood, and he made me understand that it is a crime against mankind to let such destructive power be in the hands of forces that should not control it.”
Before their deaths, did these experts of the Two Bombs — One Satellite program, whom the CCP deceived, realize the harm caused by the nuclear tests to the environment and the people and that the damage and destruction caused by the tests would still linger to this day?
The enormous impact of 45 nuclear bomb tests
In 2017, the Beijing Daily published a report entitled Malan Thunder — Revealing China’s Nuclear Test Base, reporting that the CCP established a nuclear test base in 1959 in the hinterland of Lop Nur (sometimes called Malan), the Sea of Death in Xinjiang. From the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1964 to China’s last nuclear test in 1996, more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, as well as technicians, participated in the nuclear tests there over more than 30 years.
So how many nuclear tests did the CCP conducted in those 32 years, and how much environmental pollution and contamination was caused? What kind of health threats did these more than 100,000 people suffer? How many victims were among the people around them? Of course, the CCP will not admit to the people anything about this, but Japanese researchers have provided the world with the data.
In 2009, Jun Takada, a professor of nuclear protection at Sapporo Medical University in Japan, investigated the impact of the CCP’s nuclear tests and calculated the victim population data based on the explosion power, radiation yield, meteorological data, and population density distribution of 45 nuclear tests.
The real reason why Xinjiang is in perpetual lockdown
In his article The Horror of the Chinese Communist Party’s Nuclear Adventure on the Silk Road, Professor Takada said: “China’s nuclear tests lacked adequate nuclear protection, and the 45 nuclear tests conducted by the CCP in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were more than four times more harmful than the atomic bomb of Hiroshima in Japan in World War II, and an estimated 190,000 people died acutely in the surrounding area due to radioactive contamination. According to internal Chinese documents, 1.29 million people were exposed to nuclear radiation, including 750,000 deaths.”
According to overseas researcher Zheng Yi, the center of the Xinjiang nuclear test site was called Huangyanggou. It was only 270 kilometers away from the densely populated Korla City, Yanqi County, and Bosten Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Xinjiang. Bosten Lake is the water source for nearly 1 million people, just 180 kilometers away from Malan, a nuclear test site logistics city. It was also only 127 kilometers from the 36th Regiment of the Second Agricultural Division of the state-owned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
A Chinese research journalist who lived in Xinjiang for many years, but has moved to the United States, wrote in a memoir: “The situation of nuclear contamination there has reached alarming levels. All the leaves of trees near the nuclear test site have been stripped off, and skin diseases covered with ‘fish scales’ and hair loss can be seen everywhere.
“Every time a nuclear explosion is carried out at the test site, Japan, which is thousands of miles away, would send a severe note to China in protest. It is said that the dust emitted by the atoms has drifted over to Japan and is carried by the wind, polluting Japan’s environment. Millions of Chinese people, including Han Chinese and ethnic minorities, within a few hundred miles of the test plant, silently endured all the severe consequences of nuclear contamination.
“The 36th Regiment of the Second Agricultural Division of the Production and Construction Corps of the Xinjiang Military Region was only more than 100 miles from the test site, and it is at a downwind outlet, where nuclear contamination has reached an incredible level. The trees are bare, and the pests and beneficial birds have long since fled the place. Insects and animals can make their choice, but humans cannot. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps paramilitary and household registration systems have tied nearly 10,000 peasant workers and their families and children from the 36th Regiment from leaving.”
Unimaginable physical and mental devastation
It is reported that the CCP never notified the local government or the people of any nuclear test, with only one exception: the first hydrogen bomb test. Professor Jun Takada said: “The Silk Road tourist attractions and the Nuclear Test Site are co-located. The risk of nuclear radiation accompanies a tour of the sightseeing spot. In particular, site visits before 1996 were the most risky. Even today, there are still nuclear dangers.” In 1979, an unexploded 2 million yield atomic bomb was permanently sealed there, and the sign “Permanent Contaminated Zone” was erected.
As for those soldiers who participated in the nuclear test under the slogan of “Glory for the Country,” the physical and mental devastation was unimaginable. In 2012, Liu Qing (pseudonym), who worked in the CCP’s nuclear test unit and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, revealed to overseas media the severe physical and mental damage caused by the CCP’s nuclear test contamination to military personnel.
According to Liu Qing’s description, there was zero distance between the air and water back then. Liu Qing entered the nuclear test explosion site five times to carry out missions and ate and lived there for more than half a year. Still, his only protective equipment was an ordinary military uniform, and no one had decontaminated them when they left the explosion site.
The CCP treated people like cattle
He continued: “The CCP’s nuclear tests are inhumane, and they don’t treat people as human beings at all. Just three minutes after the explosion, the troops were pulled into the drill, and the 30,000-strong troops, including tank troops, armored troops, and cavalry, all drove to the scene of the explosion to conduct the drill. Of course, those high-level leaders would not go there; at most, they would go around before the explosion and leave immediately while we carry out a mission at the nuclear explosion site and stay for dozens of days.”
One can imagine the physical condition of Liu Qing, who was exposed to nuclear radiation. Liu Qing spent most of his time taking injections and medicines for decades. Symptoms such as tooth loss, chronic gastritis, hepatitis B, rhinitis, and significantly low white blood cells also appeared, and chronic insomnia has accompanied him to this day. Of the 10 comrades who were enlisted with him in the same sub-district office, two of them died of cancer at the age of 45.
Liu Qing’s physical condition also affects his offspring. He said: “Although my son lives in Australia and is in his twenties, he always catches colds, and his immune system is inferior.”
Is climate change just a cover story for nuclear fallout?
In July 1996, the CCP announced a moratorium on nuclear testing to take effect immediately and signed the “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” in September of the same year. According to Liu Qing, the CCP has been conducting small, underground nuclear tests, which makes them more difficult to detect from outside. This is further evidence of how the CCP is deceiving the world.
Judging from the fact that the heroes of the CCP’s Two Bombs — One Satellite program endured persecution, trauma, and death and the lasting legacy of devastation from the nuclear tests, has the CCP ever considered the interests of the people?
Translated by Chua BC
