At 10 o'clock in the evening on May 8, 1999, when I had just returned to my parents in Changshu, Jiangsu from an out-of-town interview, the phone rang suddenly: "...Have you read the news? NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia! Today college students and many citizens marched on the street!" My wife in Beijing told me the news like a bolt from the blue. I hastily turned on the black and white 14-inch TV that my parents had been using, and saw the bloody scene of my embassy being bombed in South Korea and the scenes of college students in the capital protesting angrily in front of the U.S. embassy in China... This night was very important to many Chinese people. It's a restless day.I couldn't sleep, and I kept thinking about this question: Why did NATO led by the United States brazenly launch a barbaric bombing of our embassy in South Africa in front of the whole world?

Would it have dared to launch such a barbaric attack if our economic and military strength were equal to it?On this night of grief and deep thought for hundreds of millions of people in the country, I couldn't help but think of a person. He is my fellow countryman, Academician Wang Ganchang, one of the main leaders and organizers of China's atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb development.