Gambit
O.1966-5
The Lop Nur nuclear test site in northwestern China, photographed on December 8, 1966, during a KH-7/GAMBIT satellite reconnaissance mission. A test occurred on December 28, 1966.
Étiquette : Chine
Project 596
D.1964-1
China’s first atomic test on October 16, 1964, in Xinjiang. Mao wanted to prove the nation was a global power.
Plant 221
P.1958-5
Among the yak herds and Tibetan Buddhism prayer flags dotting the windswept highlands of northwestern China stand the ruins of a remote, hidden city that vanished from the maps in 1958.
The decaying clusters of workshops, bunkers and dormitories are remnants of Plant 221, also known as China’s Los Alamos. Here, on a mountain-high grassland called Jinyintan in Qinghai Province, thousands of Tibetan and Mongolian herders were expelled to create a secret town where a nuclear arsenal was built to defend Mao Zedong’s revolution.
Qinghai
D.1964-2
The monument of the successful atomic denotation in Qinghai.
Aquacole
M.2016-1
Dans les années 1960 et 1970, l’atoll d’Hao, dans l’archipel des Tuamotu, a servi de base militaire pendant les essais nucléaires en Polynésie française. Des traces de plutonium dans le corail ont été détectées sous une dalle de béton où les avions militaires étaient nettoyés. Aujourd’hui, une entreprise chinoise projette de transformer l’atoll d’Hao en gigantesque ferme-usine d’élevage de poissons tropicaux, destinés à nos assiettes.