The recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province caused a chain reaction of explosions in the Sichuan Mountains, according to a high-level Chinese military source. Destroyed in these explosions were the Chinese army’s largest armory, new weapons testing bases, and parts of nuclear facilities including actual nuclear warheads.
Chinese authorities ignored the disaster victims’ initial calls for help for up to 72 hours after the earthquake. The authorities then allowed international aid to be delivered to the region. Military analysts attribute this delay to the importance of Chinese military nuclear industries and it’s largest armory being located in Mianyang City of Sichuan Province. The Chinese did not want to risk having possible spies from the outside world snooping around a sensitive military area during a time when there may have been a nuclear accident.
Apparently a nuclear accident did happen. On June 27th, the Chinese military disclosed that 2,700 chemical cleanup workers had been sent to earthquake disaster areas for nuclear chemical emergency rescue. Military experts in southeast Asia have confirmed that a non-geological shock had occurred at the earthquake epicenter. The energy released was equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion. China News Service also reported that some Chinese experts had made a seismic analysis and suggested that a nuclear explosion might have occurred at the epicenter.
Many villagers were working in their fields at the time of the earthquake on May 12th. They reported a thunderous sound that came from the mountain, as well as a huge hole that emerged at the top. The villagers said many things were pushed out of the mountain like toothpaste being squeezed out. One witness thought maybe it was erupting magma, but another man said he could see concrete blocks exiting the mountaintop. He said the eruption lasted for about three minutes.
An expert reported that earthquakes may sometimes result in a volcanic eruption, but that no eruption of concrete has ever been recorded. Based on a China News Service report, several experts suggested that the eruption could have been caused by an explosion beneath the mountain, which shattered the concrete cover of the underground installations and pushed them to the surface. The thickness of the concrete blocks seemed to match the cover layer of China’s underground military bases.
