Chinese Minister of Defense, Peng Dehuai, reports that the Soviet Union requests Chinese-Soviet cooperation in establishing long-wave radio stations in China. Soviet experts are permitted to visit China to perform technical work.
June 1958
[Mao Zedong's] Directive Regarding the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
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关于原子弹、氢弹的指示
（一九五八年六月）
搞一点原子弹，氢弹，我看有十年功夫完全可能。要下决心，搞尖端技术，赫鲁晓夫不给我们尖端技术极好。如果给了，这个账是很难还的。搞一些人吃饭不干别的，五年不行，十年，总是可以搞出来的，原子弹要有。氢弹也要快，管它什么国．管它什么弹、原子弹，氢弹，我们都要超过。
西方资产阶级有的，东方无产阶级要有，西方资产阶级没有的．东方无产阶级也要有。
Mao calls for China to develop nuclear weapons within ten years.
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Gang er si Wuhan daxue zongbu et al, eds., Mao Zedong sixiang wansui (Long Live Mao Zedong Thought), vol. 4 (1958-1960) (Wuhan, internal circulation, May 1968): 89.
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