Stolen Nuclear Bomb Part: Concealed by China

By Sunny Jigsaw

This is a real case that has been concealed by China for 50 years and has just been declassified. In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, when the East and the West were facing each other nervously, a chilling case happened in China, which had just mastered nuclear weapons in 1964: an important part of their hydrogen bomb was stolen! Who was so audacious to steal China's top secret? KGB or CIA? This scared Chinese leaders into thinking the end of the world was coming. So they severely ordered the police to solve the case as soon as possible, with a maximum time limit of 10 days! Only 10 days!!! China's state violence machine immediately began to run crazily, and all kinds of means had been used, but as a result......

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunny Jigsaw
• Release date: May 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463342176

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Stolen Nuclear Bomb Part----Concealed by China

Author: Sunny Jigsaw (An observer for Asia)

Part 1

April 16, 1969. Taiyuan Railway Station, Shanxi Province, north China.

In the early morning, the sun rises slowly from the eastern horizon, casting a golden light on the station square. The female announcer's kind and soft voice came from the loudspeaker on the electric pole: Attention, comrades, please: the train 596 to Beijing is about to start checking tickets. Please go to gate 2 of the waiting hall, line up in turn and check in.

On the railway tracks in the station, a 16 section train was lying to wait for its passengers. In the locomotive, the 2 drivers were making preparations before driving. The overflow valve was emitting white steam from time to time, which permeates around the train. At the entrance of each carriage stood a female conductor in the uniform of the Chinese railway employee, smiling and ready to meet the passengers. At 6:30, the No.2 gate at the entrance of the station was opened to check in, and thousands of passengers converged into a stream of people, surging out of the narrow check-in gate, straight to the platform, and then scattered to the carriages. Five minutes before driving, the gate was about to be closed. But at this time, a new black Shanghai car rushed onto the platform. The driver honked his horn desperately to drive the crowd away. Everyone knew at the time that Shanghai car was specially used for the senior cadres with special privileges. So they had to rush out of a narrow passage. The car rushed to No. 3 carriage and stopped abruptly. The door suddenly opened, and two big men came out. One was twenty-three or four years old, with thick black skin, beard, a little pride between the eyebrows, wearing a deep green polyester cadre uniform, carrying a heavy black artificial leather bag in his hand; the other was thirty years old, with big eyes, thick eyebrows, grim expression, slightly curly hair, wearing a half new army casual clothes, empty hands. The two got on the No. 3 carriage and took out the ticket to the seat first. After finding the seat, they didn't sit down. The beard stood on the seat, put the artificial leather bag on the luggage rack, took out a metal chain lock wrapped with plastic sleeve from his trouser pocket, and then went through the handle of the bag, and clicked it was locked on the luggage rack. After the beard came down, the curly hair seemed uneasy. He went up again and checked it carefully. After confirmed it was ok, he sat down. At this time, the siren sounded and the train set off for Beijing, the capital of China.

The railway from Taiyuan to Beijing is called Jing--Yuan line. It starts from Taiyuan and ends at Yongdingmen Station, Beijing. The whole journey is 561 km through two provinces of north China (Shanxi province and Hebei province). Under normal circumstances, the normal driving time was 13 hours and 44 minutes at that time. But during China's chaotic Cultural Revolution, God knew what would happen along the way! However, the Chinese who were able to move across provinces at that time, became inured to the unusual. As soon as the train set out, the carriage began to bustle. Some people took out playing cards, three or four people gathered together to play cards; some two caught each other for playing Chinese chess on the small table in the window; some people sung Peking Opera in a low voice, and when they were satisfied, they couldn't help making a loud voice, which frightened the people in the neighborhood to shiver, but no one dared to criticize them; more passengers were chatting about small political news, and the speakers were enjoying to talk and the listeners relished it. In the whole No.3 carriage, only the two passengers from the Shanghai car were different. They were sitting in a serious, unrelenting manner. They didn't play cards or chess, hum or chat with others, or even talk to each other. But if some more careful people around, just pay a little attention to them, and they would find such a detail: no matter when, one of the two young men's eyes was fixed on the artificial leather bag on the luggage rack.

Who are these two young big men? What's in the bag? Listen to the details below——

The two mysterious young men were security guards of The Institute of Atomic Science of China in Taiyuan (Code 703 in China, hereafter it will be abbreviated as Institute 703), a top secret unit for nuclear bomb. The curly hair surnamed Qin Jiakang was the chief of the security section of the Institute 703; the beard was Yang Xiaochen, a subordinate of Qin Jiakang. Since the spring of 1967, according to the order of the State Council (The State Council is the central government of China) and the Central Military Commission (The supreme command of the armed forces of China), Institute 703 had participated in research of TQD automatic instrument for the development of a new type of atomic bomb designed by China. After nearly two years' unremitting efforts of Institute 703, TQD automatic instrument was developed successfully. After several months of laboratory tests, all experts of Institute 703 agreed that TQD automatic instrument had reached the design requirements of the superior. Then the leaders of Institute 703 decided to send it to Beijing for final identification by the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of national defense of China. After discussion by the leaders of 703, Qin Jiakang, chief of the security section of Institute 703, decided to take charge of the task of delivering parts in person. Qin Jiakang, a 32-year-old from Changzhi, Shanxi Province, joined the Artillery Force of the People's Liberation Army of China at the age of 18. At the age of 28, he was transferred to the Institute 703 and served as chief of the catering unit under the general affairs department. After China's Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he was promoted and served as the chief of the security section. After accepting the