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CW.216.VIKING BOER – CHINA WATCH – China’s Secret Nuclear City Called 404
China’s Secret Nuclear City – 404
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LOOKING BACK – Premiered May 8, 2022, CHINA
China’s Secret Nuclear City | 404 | Nuclear War In China
I go INSIDE China’s Secret Nuclear FacilityA place that vanished from the map, a legend buried deep in the mountains, a national secret with epic spirit and peaceful vision – this is the 816 underground nuclear base. The scenes, reminiscent of a sci-fi blockbuster, are not computer-generated special effects, but actual secret facilities in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality from the 1970s.
Welcome to the belly of China 816 Nuclear Military Plant, a decommissioned Cold War-era plutonium and weapons processing facility buried in the Chongqing mountains that contains one of the world’s largest man-made caves. Only a third of 816 is currently open, with other areas of the mountain still highly restricted to tourists.
404 is the name of an abandoned city in the Gansu province of northeast China, situated within the sandy plains of the Gobi desert. The city was built in 1958; it occupied an area of 4 km2 and included a factory, police station, school, and a residential area. In the 1990s, it was China’s largest nuclear base, and there were almost 100,000 people who lived there. There is no official report on what happened to 404, but according to photographer Li Yang, a third-generation citizen of the city, the lack of decent medical facilities, an education system, and other supporting structures, drove residents to relocate in 2005.
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