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Chairman Mao said, let those internal and external reactionary cliques face us

in trepidation.

When they say that this cannot be done, and that cannot be done, ignore them.

With indomitable and indefatigable efforts, the Chinese people will

steadily attain their objective.

The sun rises from the east every morning with rosy rays in myriad shapes.

Our great socialist fatherland is in a... Our

great teacher, great leader, great commander, and great helmsman, Chairman

Mao, is the red sun in our hearts.

Under the leadership of Chairman Mao and the Chinese Communist Party...

under the guidance of the general line for socialist construction of the party

to drive hard and drive to advance and to get greater faster better and more

economical results and under the three great movements of class struggle

production struggle and scientific testing our Chinese people have achieved

great successes our nation's people's communes are further developing and

consolidating in the wide countryside there is revolutionary outlook

everywhere

And there is laughter everywhere because of bumper crops.

They sing, learn how to do things on a large scale.

And have the courage to do things on a large scale.

Gather the red flowers which are blooming everywhere on a large scale.

The broad masses of workers on the industrial war front.

are fiercely engaged in revolutionization and fiercely breaking

loose from foreignization to choose their own industrial development path.

They are applying maximum effort. They dare to apply maximum effort.

This spirit of applying maximum effort is prevalent throughout the whole

nation. Throughout our great fatherland, the heat of revolution is generating

everywhere, and a new all-around leap-forward situation is emerging.

Our national defense industry, under the correct leadership of the Party's

Central Committee, the great leadership of Chairman Mao, Comrade Lin Bao, the

close war buddy of Chairman Mao, and Comrade Zhou Enlai, is progressing at a

thousand Li a day.

Preparations for our nation's first nuclear test are intensely underway.

Mao Zedong's thoughts guide us in all our work.

In response to Vice Chairman Lin Bao's call, the comrades raise high the great

red flag of Mao Zedong's ideology, creatively study and apply Chairman

Mao's work, and apply themselves vigorously.

Service men in the engineering corps, braving bitter winds and sandstorms, are

struggling day and night, overcoming difficulties.

to erect various buildings and installations for the explosion.

the scientific and technical personnel even with crude instruments because of a

lack of sophisticated instruments are carrying on preparatory work in chemical

analysis

our

nation's broad masses of workers engineers technical personnel

scientists and officers and men of the People's Liberation Army all

energetically put their efforts together to make a large quantity of instruments

and equipment.

Here the various instruments are undergoing a final check before the

Senate.

These instruments laid out on the site will accurately record the various

results of the test.

Sherman now has taught us that when the enemy sharpens his sword, he must

sharpen our sword.

We not only must have our own atomic bomb, but we must under the threat of

the enemy's atomic bomb acquire the capability which we should have to

destroy the enemy and the knowledge to preserve ourselves.

The comrades ready for the test are intensely engaged in training

activities.

Fighters armed with Mao Zedong's thoughts are not deterred by any

difficulty.

For training, they picked the hottest time in the day to march in boiling

fans.

In each training session, how

much sweat do they prepare?

During the intense struggle, they always maintain the glorious traditions of our

army, resolutely struggling in spite of hardship and displaying the cheerful

revolutionary spirit.

Comrades of the cultural and arts troops penetrate deeply into the area to

conduct propaganda and stimulating activities.

The comrades, using discarded lumber to make poles and grass strings to weave a

net, engage in mass physical exercise.

In the whole test area, the atmosphere is enveloped with a spirit of unity,

tension, solemnity, and animation.

Comrades of the quartermaster corps are delivering supplies straight to the door

with the single purpose of servicing the whole front wholeheartedly.

Streamline trains reach the site and sewing machines are moved to the

barracks.

The testing day is approaching and all types of equipment and arms for testing

are transported to the site

in

this testing not only will all kinds of testing equipment and installations be

used to measure the magnitudes of the atomic bomb but four categories of

equipment and installation for national defense engineering animals and civil

defense will be subjected to testing.

At 1500 hours on October 16, 1964, the event which shocked the whole world

finally takes place.

Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Our

nation's

first atomic bomb is a success.

The atomic bomb designed and made by our own nation is a complete success.

Our nation's first nuclear test.

surpasses the levels of the first nuclear tests of the United States,

Britain, and France.

This is the result of the efforts of our nation's workers, engineers, technical

personnel, scientists, officers and men of the People's Liberation Army, and all

those concerned who willingly raised high the great red flag of Mao Zedong's

thought, gave prominence to policy, creatively studied and used Chairman

Mao's work.

and concentrated their efforts to wage a battle of annihilation with united and

vigorous cooperation.

This is a gigantic success of Mao Zedong's thought.

This is a gigantic success of the general line.

Long live the Chinese Communist Party.

Long live Chairman Mao.

Personnel and cars entering the contaminated area of the explosion for

recovery work are given strict examination.

These women comrades are glad to join the ranks of combat.

Gathering the contaminated area is an intense battle of racing against minutes

and seconds to complete the task.

Chairman Mao says, in our work, we must be enthusiastic but calm, and intense

but orderly.

See how intensely and earnestly they attend to their work.

They successfully returned.

The people greet them intimately and warmly.

In the afternoon of October 16, 1964,

Premier Chou announces the news about our nation's successful experiments in

testing its first atomic bomb.

The nuclear monopoly and nuclear tyranny of the U.S. imperialists and the

revisionists have been thoroughly banqueted.

Their criminal attempts to block and prevent our nation's people from

grasping nuclear weapons have been thoroughly smashed.

Work for the second nuclear test has begun.

The comrades, not fearing hard labor and fatigue and continual fighting, are

eagerly engaged in the new battle.

The combat teams are given pre-combat political indoctrination to prepare for

an intense struggle maneuver.

At present, the U.S. imperialists are shifting their warlike

strategy to Asia.

They are maniacally expanding the war of aggression in Vietnam, and they are

preparing to impose war on the heads of the Chinese people.

Chairman Mao says, the imperialists have humiliated us so severely that we must

seriously take them to account.

We must be prepared to fight early, to fight on a large scale, to fight great

nuclear war, to fight all kinds of war.

and on several fronts.

Another stimulating and jubilant day arrives on May 14, 1965.

Our nation successfully explodes its second nuclear bomb in the sky over the

western part of our country.

This is an extremely accurate, extremely successful explosion.

It demonstrates the great result of cooperation among leaders, specialists,

and the masses.

and of the cooperation of education with research.

This is another victory song for Mao Zedong's thought.

To gain military experience under atomic conditions, the various tactical and

maneuvering units enter the area of the explosion to conduct tactical maneuvers.

Following Chairman Mao's teachings, they go forward without fear of sacrifices to

overwhelm difficulties and grasp victory.

Chairman Mao has always taught us that weapons are an important factor in war,

but they are not the decisive factor.

The decisive factor is not material, but man.

Vice Chairman Lin Bao points out that under nuclear conditions, the greater

the power is, the more intense the close fighting and night fighting would be.

Regardless of offensive or defensive, the final decisive battle will be one of

close combat.

at 100 or 200 meters.

At that time, it will depend on who is tougher, who can take a position, who

can hold it, who dares to see red on his band.

At that time, it will depend on one's proletarian consciousness and one's

courage.

We have the spiritual atomic bomb, which is impossible for the enemy to acquire,

and we also have the material atomic bomb.

No enemy can defeat it.

If the imperialists dare to impose war on our head, we will finally break the

sinews and bones of the aggressors and thoroughly and completely destroy all of

them.

After the successful second nuclear testing, work on the third nuclear

testing starts.

Comrades on the testing site resolutely pursue the working styles of four first

and three eighth.

The political air is thick in the entire testing area.

Read Chairman Mao's book.

Obey Chairman Mao's orders.

Follow Chairman Mao's principles in doing things and be a good fighter for

Chairman Mao.

This becomes the common behavior of all the comrades on the testing ground.

They always carry Chairman Mao's work with them and study them everywhere and

anytime. They resolutely and thoroughly implement the directives of Vice

Chairman Lin Dao on giving prominence to politics and the five principles.

They study hard and apply their knowledge to their work.

Here the cadres and servicemen are exchanging their experiences in the

creative study and use of Chairman Mao's work.

They realize that Chairman Mao's sayings are honest, most powerful, every

sentence contains truth, every sentence is worth 10,000 other sentences, and Mao

Zedong's thought gets results when applied in any situation.

The kitchen comrades also put forth their efforts for this nuclear test.

Look at the sandstorm and the howling wind, how turbulent they are, and the

skies and earth, how dark they are.

But who cares?

No matter how great the difficulties are, they cannot be greater than the

determination of fighters who are armed with Mao Zedong's thoughts.

They, from the beginning to the end, resolutely stay at their fighting post.

Chairman Mao says the Chinese people are not even afraid of death.

How could they be afraid of difficulty?

Our comrades, cadres and fighters, following Chairman Mao's teachings of

the spirit of the foolish old man who moved the mountain, are working together

intensely to complete great engineering work.

The comrades, remembering Chairman Mao's teachings, blend their sky-high

revolutionary fervor with their scientific attitudes to strictly check

all types of instruments and installations.

These are the materials and equipment for civilian uses to be tested.

They are preparing

the different animals for participation in the test.

the stimulating time 1600 hours on may 9 1966 will soon be here

our nation's first nuclear bomb containing thermo materials explodes

successfully.

From the time of the successful explosion of our first atomic bomb to

the successful explosion of our first thermonuclear bomb, It took us only a

little over one year.

Such great leap forward progress proves that the Chinese people, equipped with

Mao Zedong's thought, dare to take a road never before taken by their

predecessors, dare to scale a peak never before scaled by their predecessors, and

are able to equal any miracle done by anyone else.

The results of the third nuclear test again prove that the power of our

nuclear weapon is tremendous.

Nonetheless, it also again proves that with adequate protection, complete

defense against nuclear weapons is possible.

Look at these two dogs on the ground.

They are much safer than those dogs on the surface.

They had only an iron plate coated with lime over them.

After the explosion, they are not harmed by the radiation.

These chickens even laid eggs after the nuclear explosion.

The monkeys in the sheltered headquarters leaped only once when the

fierce explosion occurred.

There is no damage to the electric lights and electric wires in the

sheltered headquarters.

The sheltered headquarters is adequate protection against atomic attacks.

The exposed buildings on the surface are seriously damaged, but the nearby semi

-underground buildings are in good condition.

The earth scorched by the explosion can still nourish plants.

The seeds exposed to the explosion can still germinate and grow.

Damaged crops can live and even grow luxuriously.

Khrushchev and his revisionists recklessly said that the atomic bomb

would destroy all mankind.

This is nothing but a devilish lie.

They just want to bully the revolutionary people with their nuclear

bomb We proudly received the wonderful news Victory belongs to the great

glorious and correct Chinese Communist Party Glory belongs to our most most

beloved chairman Mao

After the third nuclear test, our government solemnly reiterates that

China conducts necessary but restricted nuclear tests to develop nuclear weapons

to oppose the nuclear tyranny and nuclear threats of the U.S. imperialists

and their cooperators, and to oppose the connivance of the United States and the

Soviet Union to monopolize nuclear weapons.

to crush the revolutionary struggles of all the oppressed people and oppressed

races.

At any time or under any circumstance, China will never use the nuclear weapon

first.

The Chinese people and the Chinese government will, as they always have

continuously, unswervingly struggle together with all the peace-loving

peoples and nations in the whole world and for the lofty goal of all-out

prohibition and thorough destruction.

of all nuclear weapons.

The morale of the revolutionary people in the whole world is bolstered by the

successful capability of the Chinese people to control nuclear weapons.

This punctures the pride of the imperialists, the neo-revisionists, and

the reactionary cliques of various nations.

For this, we have received numerous felicitations from fraternal parties,

friendly countries, government leaders, people groups, and enlightened

personages.

congratulating us on our great achievement in the third nuclear test.

They cheer fervently because the nuclear weapons in the hands of the Chinese

people are ones to be used for the protection of world peace, for inspiring

the revolutionary people in the world to struggle against the United States.

This is a victory of Mao Zedong's thought and the victory of the general

line. Shout aloud with fervent emotion.

Sing aloud with fervent emotion.

We must always remember Chairman Mao's victims.

The atomic bomb is a paper tiger used by the U.S.

reactionary clique to frighten the people.

It appears ferocious, but actually it is not.

Of course, the atomic bomb is a large-scale mass-killing weapon, but

what decides the outcome of a war is not one or two new weapons, but the people.