ABSTRACT
The intervention of the Science and Technology Commission for National Defense (NDSTC) into factories, research institutes, and ministries, which was concomitant with this growth, continued to generate centers of interest in opposition to it. The NDSTC had begun to grow prior to the Cultural Revolution. In the process of developing the first atom bomb, the commission engaged in directly organizing all the experimental work in the Academy of Science; state organs concerned with metallurgy, chemical industry, machine industry, electronics, aviation, spaceflight, armament, shipping, railways, education, and so forth across Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Beijing, and twenty other cities, provinces, and autonomous regions; and PLA ministries, commissions, and arms of the service. The NDSTC tried to turn the establishment of such a committee to its advantage. Although the NDSTC’s growth was to be curtailed, the unit still received some criticism.
