Word: sinkiang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certify the value of what one writer called "the atomic bomb of Mao's thought," China exploded its fifth nuclear device last week at its Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang. As the Chinese press reported it, the test was "a heavy blow to the plot of U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism." A more objective analysis will have to wait until the fallout drifts into the hands of Western scientists...
...reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands in the Amur, and Soviet river boats are periodically fired on by the Chinese. The Chinese have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...
...satellite cameras record roads, railways, steel mills, oil wells, nuclear plants, missile ranges and troop movements. U.S. Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang. They have predicted well in advance the timing of all three Chinese atomic explosions...
...bomb was not H. Seismographs monitoring the Chinese test site in Sinkiang province indicated a wallop of only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered...
...world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve their minds by a period of hard labor...