Has anyone heard about the nuclear bomb in Taiwan? Several different Taiwanese have told me that there is a secret military base located near Dawu in Taitung and that Taiwan’s ‘secret’ nuclear bomb is being hidden there, near the silos. I found this out when I wanted to ride a scooter from Kenting to Taitung. I didn’t do it because several people said it couldn’t be done, due to ‘certain circumstances’. Now that I know about the bomb, it does seem like the people of Taipei are walking with a quiet confidence about them. They ‘know’. Take a look at your neighbors and the people milling about outside. They know. Has anyone else heard about this?
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Ski
hahahaha ROTFLMAO
nuclear bomb in taiwan lol!
don’t laugh. three words–salad oil can
Ah, Nope it actually was a happy investment thing that was going on in the 1980’s. Included a heavy spy thriller plot right about when US relations ended. Remember Carter was a big nuclear physicist and there was an enormous amount of secret nuclear programs…Israel, South Africa, Brazil etc that just kept popping up out of nowhere. Much of the underground thought at the time was that the US government actually funded it in some goofy way. I would think that at some point in the next five years you’ll be able to see the movie so that you could misunderstand it better. The actual site was 50 miles southwest of Taipei if I remember correctly. For some reason I assumed it was near Taoyuan temple (I’m not sure if that’s right) but the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said it was next to a chungshan Institute, where ever that is…?
For some goofy reason I’ve never run into a Taiwanese person who knew anything about this and all denied that such a thing could have ever been. I just got to the point were I thought it was wise to never mention it…even tho it is widely known. Hopefully this is not some memoryhole thing that people need to enforce censorship over. But what the heck I might as well drop the bomb cause there’s no reason for folks to have to trip over bits and pieces of history in the dark.
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1998/jf98/jf98albright.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/tainuke.htm
Ooops, looks like I just didn’t know the spelling for the place…it’s
biotecheast.com/databasefile … gshan.html
but you have to delete the **** in the address (secret code thing I guess)
Pretty funny the business description notes that they have 14000 employees and yet they use a post office box for an address?
P.O. Box 90008, Lungtan, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Somebodies got to go and try and get some tourist pictures to post up…
One of my customers worked for the Taiwan foreign service in the 80’s, stationed in South Africa. He said that he didn’t know how far the project went, but he was involved in the purchase from S.A. of Uranium for nukes. He said everyone knew it was for military use, and the U.S.'s investigation of the matter was a pro forma deal where both sides smiled and ingnored what was fairly common knowledge.
Sure. They keep it in the same place they store the captured alien spaceship.
Yep. And this is where the master switch is, too, which will release a special code sequence causing all computer chips made in Taiwan to malfunction. This would effectively bring the world to a standstill.
why not? american universities are open to anyone. didn’t taiwan place three guys in MIT a decade back in enginnering whereupon each specialized in a field of missles/rockets? they studied hard, learnt their stuff and came home and greatly updated the capabilities of their field.
why wouldn’t taiwan have the bomb?
BTW, that road from Oulanpi up to Dawu? It’s never been open to the motoring public, ever. I’m not even sure if it exists. There are lots of lines drawn on the old maps that don’t have roads to match them.
Did you forget to fill your prescription again?
Well, there is no road from Oluanpi to Dawu, but almost. About 5km or so north of Hengchun, a turnoff to Sichongxi Hot Springs and then road keeps going. It doesn’t hug the coast all the way, more in the mountains. They are extending the road along the coastline, it might eventually reach Oluanpi. I’ve driven this. Yes, it was a secret military area, but that is no longer the case. Road is very narrow, but still passable with a car, better on a motorcycle.
I’ve just spent the last two days on that road…beautiful!
There is a last mountain ridge that the 199 skirts away from the coastline and meets the 9 between Fongkang and Tawu on the east coast but other than that…It’s been open for several years now. The tracked gun silos as you go through the base are really impressive and there are some really nice secluded coves, beaches and harbors to be explored. I drove down literally every coastal access road to the sea over the last two days,(Was keeping an eye on my friend Mark Western who is doing a solo shot around Taiwan by kayak) and nowhere did I see any sign of an area that was off limits. The 200 highway, which starts in Hengchun and meets the 199, should be completed straight through from a little south of Tawu to the little town of gangtzai. I drove down it from north to south yesterday morning, and was able to get down the coast for almost 6 kilometers (Do not attempt this with any sort of passenger car!). Once this road is completed, it will cut about 50 minutes off the travel time from Taidong-Kenting.
A little off-topic, but such a nice little backwater it’s worth letting people know…Never any traffic and a great way to sneak the back way into Kenting during holidays.
Oh, I didn’t see anything glowing either…If you want the answers for this thread, they’ll be buried deep in the bowels of the Chungshan Institute of technology in Lungtan, not on some obsolete military base south of Tawu. 
This article says Taiwan doesn’t have the bomb and goes into some detail.
While I don’t have any inside knowledge on this issue I would say it is highly likely that Taiwan maintains the capability to develop a nuclear weapon should it become strategically necessary.
In Australia the government maintains a nuclear research reactor and it is trying to replace it with a new one. The government maintains a high level of secrecy around it because there is a very high level of public opposition to anything radioactive in Australia. The government line is that the reactor’s main purpose is producing isotopes for medical purposes. However, some people speculate that the real reason Australia continues to maintain a reactor is so that it has the capability to develop a nuclear weapon. I suppose Taiwan is likely to be in a similar situation.
It is a fact that there was a secret nuclear bomb research center in some major city in Japan during WWII . . . . I think it might have been Hiroshima . . . . . . and that after the Japanese surrendered on August 15, 1945, a thorough inspection of that research center failed to uncover any of the secret documentation on that project . . . . . so some people suspect that all of that information was somehow smuggled to Taiwan. (Note: Taiwan was under Japanese sovereignty up until April 1952.)
Anyway, this is what I heard and I assume that this information is 100% reliable.
There is a sly reference to the Taiwan program in Denny Roy’s book, which seems to suggest that there may be a weapon or two in Taiwan. The project was very active in the 80’s when Taiwan was looking for material for the reactors.
YAAAAAAAAAAAH the beans is out
nuclear fission in fishing wells hidden in dutch castle
how will the launch the missle, prolly straight up in the air
and then boom china wont want to lay claim to this island no more because its apocolypse isle
Illah I applaud you for your efforts at writing coherent english. I actually completely understood what you had to say. Not like some of the others… 
One of my students told me that Abien called up Hu Jintao recently and told him that if China sends one ballistic missile over here that he can ‘kiss Beijing goodbye.’ In vivid language, Abien described Shandong Province as becoming a giant crater filled with PLA corpses. Hu apparently hung up the telephone shaking with fear, and visions of a nuclear warhead flying westward across the strait wake in from his sleep several nights a week. The ‘bird rain’ that occured in his hometown earlier this year was seen as ominous foreshadowing for what might come if things get too hot with Taiwan. People in Taiwan ‘know’.
Although I put the probability as quite low, I don’t think it ridiculous to speculate that Taiwan may have a hidden nuke.
A gang boss I’ve met claims that there is one. He’s 100% sure of it, and claims he’s ina position to know.
The question is. Is a secret nuke any use. As soon as Taiwan were to say ‘we got a nuke, don’t invade us’, all promises of US defence aid are off. Maybe it’s there for if the US ever abandons us.
Brian
Why is this such a surprise?
It’s not a secret that Taiwan has been trying to develop nuclear weapons for decades. In fact many sources claim that CKS could’ve developed nukes before Commie China did but the US stopped him, which was ok with CKS since the US stationed nukes in Taiwan anyways. Well, more like Kinmen. After the US severed relations, Taiwan once agained tried to develop nuke and was close before the US discovered and told Taiwan to stop. Nowadays Taiwan maintains that although it does not intend to develop nuclear weapons, it has the capability to “go nuclear” in a very short period of time if forced to.