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"Yes, there are also Yu Min, Wu Ziliang, Zhou Guangzhao, and Peng Hengwu!"
Nie Shuai: "The light nuclear reaction team and the heavy nuclear reaction team will meet. Right here, not long after!"
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2:50 p.m.
"Enter K1."
Zhang Yunyu inserted the key into the console and turned it. K1 represents that the atomic bomb is ready for test explosion.
"Enter K2."
All nuclear test instruments are in working condition.
Nie Shuai stood by the phone.This is a dedicated confidential phone directly to Zhongnanhai, and the chairman is on the other end of the phone.
"Enter K3!"
The nuclear test starts automatically, and the atomic bomb enters the countdown before the explosion.
“10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、1，0，起爆！”
Zhang Yunyu pressed the button hard - in fact, even if he didn't press it, the nuclear bomb would explode normally after a few seconds.
As soon as the "detonation" was said, a strong light came out from the direction of the explosion test tower, illuminating the sky northeast of the main control station.The west slanting sun, the northeast nuclear flash, the main control station can now see two suns!
The base's chemical defense troops were closer to the test tower, so they could see it more clearly.After the flash, a huge fireball rose from the Gobi Desert in the distance.
The fireball continued to rise and expand, and a bright mushroom cloud gradually took shape.
The shock wave followed, and even though it was 10 kilometers away from the epicentre, the chemical defense soldiers still felt as if someone pushed them in the chest.
The initial cheers came from the chemical defense troops, and then everyone in the main control station also rushed out of the control room, out of the trench circle, jumped on the low earth wall built outside the circle, and threw their hats into the sky, Shouting loudly.
Nie Shuai grabbed the phone: "We succeeded! The atomic bomb exploded successfully!"
Excited, Nie Shuai didn't need a password anymore.
"Chairman, the atomic bomb exploded successfully!" It was Liu Jie who answered the phone. The chairman was in the other corner of the room. Liu Jie immediately repeated Nie Shuai's words.
Chairman: "How do you prove it was a nuclear explosion?"
"A strong flash was observed at the master control station 20 kilometers away, and the mushroom cloud top has now risen to an altitude of 8000 meters and is still rising!" Nie Shuai said.
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The nuclear experts at the master control station used simple tools to estimate the equivalent of "Qongqi", which can be determined to be more than 2 tons of TNT.
The specific exact equivalent number will have to wait for the instrument to measure the result.
Ten minutes after the "Qongqi" explosion, the scouts of the chemical defense force wore protective clothing, drove a protective armored vehicle, and carried instruments, and drove to the radiation-contaminated area to conduct on-site reconnaissance and testing operations.
Air sampling planes also flew over the test area, and Qian Sanqiang and Zhu Guangya looked up from time to time.The sampling plane has to drill under the mushroom cloud to retrieve the nuclear radioactive dust. Now the "poor" mushroom cloud has risen to a height of more than ten kilometers, and its color has gradually turned gray. The dust sucked up by the mushroom cloud is also gradually falling from the sky.
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Ten minutes after the "Qongqi" explosion, the Indian Seismic Observatory in New Delhi, the Soviet Seismic Observatory in Kyrgyzstan, and the American Observatory in Pakistan successively sensed a trace of unusual seismic waves.
The shock wave is very small, but it comes from a direction where earthquakes are absolutely impossible, and what it shows is a waveform that absolutely does not belong to the movement of tectonic plates.
The Soviet Union was the first to understand what was happening.
Half a month ago, China privately informed the Soviet Union that China was going to conduct a nuclear test in the Xinjiang area, and the first atomic bomb tested was an implosion-type uranium bomb.
The data from the earthquake observatory were quickly transmitted back to Moscow, and Kurchatov only glanced at the data and came to the conclusion:
"The Chinese comrades did not use the design we gave. They corrected the flaws in their own nuclear bomb design based on the mistakes we pointed out."
"It seems that you did teach them something," Sakharov said.
After thinking for a while, Sakharov added another sentence: "The leader instructed you to help the Chinese comrades instead of calling me, which shows that the secret of the hydrogen bomb is still not suitable for spreading."
Kurchatov: "Exactly. It is what we should do to help Chinese comrades. In the field of atomic bombs, we can provide assistance within our capacity. The hydrogen bombs must be understood by themselves."
"The secret of nuclear fusion is not something that can be easily understood..." Sakharov sighed.
After the United States got accurate information about China's nuclear test, the air force base was the first to react.
In the hangar, a U-2 is undergoing emergency refitting, and the instrument boxes are removed from the aircraft one by one, and replaced with new equipment boxes.
"Fallout collection box." "Gamma ray detector." "Neutron detector." "B-type camera."
"Here's the route map and flight plan."
The pilot got the manual and asked in bewilderment: "We just entered China a few days ago, and we have to re-enter so soon? The number of flights is too frequent, and it is easy to be caught by the rules of the route and the turning point."
"China just exploded their first atomic bomb," the intelligence officer said. "We have to take off quickly. The flight map was drawn up by weather experts. You take off in 4 hours, just in time to catch up with the drifting nuclear explosion air mass."
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Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
The UAR government delegation arrived in Beijing for a goodwill visit.This UAR is not the League of Arab States, but the United Arab Republic. In 1958, Egypt and Syria merged into one country - the United Arab Republic, referred to as the United Arab Republic.
The representatives of the United Arab Emirates just stayed at the hotel. The Prime Minister agreed to come to meet and welcome them at 8:10 pm, but today the Prime Minister was [-] minutes late.
"Sorry everyone, I'm late." The Prime Minister's first words when he entered the door.
"First of all, I want to inform you of a piece of news. More than five hours ago, China exploded an atomic bomb and successfully conducted its first nuclear test."
United Arab Emirates delegation: ... (ah?!)
"This is a major achievement made by the Chinese people in the struggle to strengthen national defense and oppose the U.S. imperialist policy of nuclear blackmail and nuclear threat. China's development of nuclear weapons and nuclear tests are completely compulsive."
"China does not need to develop nuclear weapons. However, our proposition of the complete prohibition and complete destruction of nuclear weapons has been stubbornly resisted by U.S. imperialism. It is the common responsibility of all peace-loving countries to defend world peace. We develop nuclear weapons to protect Peace, to defend the Chinese people from nuclear threats."
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Washington.
Late night Beijing time, noon Eastern time.
Chinese embassy press conference.
Gu Weijun, the 72-year-old Chinese ambassador to the United States, entered the venue and walked to the press conference table in the center under the watchful eyes of a room full of reporters.
The camera in the reporter's hand flashed frequently, dazzling.Clearly and secretly, Gu Weijun seems to have returned to the moment when he was the secretary of Beiyang Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi 48 years ago.The next flash, he was back in 1915, when the Japanese stuffed the letter of agreement with 21 requirements into his hands.