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9th July 2010, 21:17
Joan Hinton remembered
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
By: Doug Kauffman
American physicist turned anti-imperialist revolutionary
On July 16, 1945, Joan Hinton eluded Army patrols and hid behind a remote hill near Alamogordo, N.M., to watch the first detonation of an atomic bomb in human history. Hinton had been recruited from the physics department at the University of Wisconsin to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project in developing the first atomic weaponry. At the time, Hinton believed that the atomic bomb’s destructive force would be used in a safe demonstration to halt World War II.
Three weeks later, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had killed roughly 200,000 people, Hinton became an outspoken peace activist. She eventually moved to China and joined the revolutionary movement there in 1948. The imperialist media, in the midst of McCarthyism, called Hinton “The Atom Spy Who Got Away.”
When asked why she had chosen to join the Chinese Revolution, Hinton told National Public Radio, “I did not want to spend my life figuring out how to kill people. I wanted to figure out how to let people have a better life, not a worse life.”
Hinton showed her truly revolutionary nature when she abandoned a certain future of lucrative imperialist scientific research in destructive technology for a life farming in a remote area of China. There, she worked diligently to improve machinery used for the production of dairy by-products and contributed to the advancement of socialist construction.
Later, during the Cultural Revolution, Joan Hinton worked as a translator and stated that she was “100 percent behind everything that happened during the Cultural Revolution.”
Hinton remained a revolutionary through all of China’s so-called market-socialist reforms. She remained a part of the worldwide movement against U.S. imperialism and was an outspoken advocate against the current imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an article titled, “The Second Superpower,” Hinton described the world as clearly divided between the U.S.-led ruling class of imperialists and the world proletariat.
In the article, Hinton quoted the African proverb that goes, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a small room with a mosquito.” She wrote that it was incumbent on “each and every one of us to be the mosquito, to bite where it hurts, and to keep up the pressure! With persistence, patience, and courage, we, the people of the whole world, can win and certainly will win!”
On June 8, the world proletariat lost Joan Hinton, a truly revolutionary woman. But her contribution to the struggle remains, and her bite will continue to be felt by U.S. imperialism as more and more proletarians like herself join the revolutionary movement toward socialism.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14203&news_iv_ctrl=1261
Manhattan Project physicist and Chinese dairy farmer dies at 88
By The New York Times
Posted: 06/13/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
Joan Hinton, 88, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the atom bomb but who spent most of her life working on dairy farms in China, died Tuesday in Beijing.
She had an abdominal aneurysm, said her son, Bill Engst.
Hinton was recruited for the Manhattan Project in February 1944 while a graduate student in physics at the University of Wisconsin. In Los Alamos, N.M., she was assigned to a team that built two reactors for testing enriched uranium and plutonium.
Hinton thought the bomb would be used for a demonstration explosion. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, she became a peace activist.
In 1948, she moved to China, where she met her future husband, Erwin Engst, a Cornell- trained dairy-cattle expert who went on to work as a breeder while she designed and built machinery. The New York Times
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/UploadFiles/201006/2010060900114042.jpg (http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/UploadFiles/201006/2010060900114042.jpg)
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/201006/157557.html
Video: International communist fighter Joan Hinton comrade memorial
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/201006/161022.html
Introduction：http://baike.baidu.com/view/1495132.htm?fr=ala0_1
Video: Joan Hinton commemorate the 116th anniversary of birth of Mao Zedong
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/200912/122204.html
Video: Joan Hinton commemorate the 115th anniversary of birth of Mao Zedong
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class14/200812/62690.html
In a 1996 interview with CNN, after nearly 50 years in China, she stated “[we] never intended to stay in China so long, but were too caught up to leave.” Hinton described the changes she and her husband had witnessed in China since the beginning of the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. They stated they “have watched their socialist dream fall apart” as much of China embraced capitalism. A 2004 MSNBC interviews noted her critical assessment of economic change as “betrayals of the socialist cause.” She noted what she describes as a rise of exploitation in Chinese society.
"It would have been terrific if Mao had lived. . . Of course I was 100% behind everything that happened in the Cultural Revolution—it was a terrific experience." ——Joan Hinton
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
By: Doug Kauffman
American physicist turned anti-imperialist revolutionary
On July 16, 1945, Joan Hinton eluded Army patrols and hid behind a remote hill near Alamogordo, N.M., to watch the first detonation of an atomic bomb in human history. Hinton had been recruited from the physics department at the University of Wisconsin to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project in developing the first atomic weaponry. At the time, Hinton believed that the atomic bomb’s destructive force would be used in a safe demonstration to halt World War II.
Three weeks later, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had killed roughly 200,000 people, Hinton became an outspoken peace activist. She eventually moved to China and joined the revolutionary movement there in 1948. The imperialist media, in the midst of McCarthyism, called Hinton “The Atom Spy Who Got Away.”
When asked why she had chosen to join the Chinese Revolution, Hinton told National Public Radio, “I did not want to spend my life figuring out how to kill people. I wanted to figure out how to let people have a better life, not a worse life.”
Hinton showed her truly revolutionary nature when she abandoned a certain future of lucrative imperialist scientific research in destructive technology for a life farming in a remote area of China. There, she worked diligently to improve machinery used for the production of dairy by-products and contributed to the advancement of socialist construction.
Later, during the Cultural Revolution, Joan Hinton worked as a translator and stated that she was “100 percent behind everything that happened during the Cultural Revolution.”
Hinton remained a revolutionary through all of China’s so-called market-socialist reforms. She remained a part of the worldwide movement against U.S. imperialism and was an outspoken advocate against the current imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an article titled, “The Second Superpower,” Hinton described the world as clearly divided between the U.S.-led ruling class of imperialists and the world proletariat.
In the article, Hinton quoted the African proverb that goes, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a small room with a mosquito.” She wrote that it was incumbent on “each and every one of us to be the mosquito, to bite where it hurts, and to keep up the pressure! With persistence, patience, and courage, we, the people of the whole world, can win and certainly will win!”
On June 8, the world proletariat lost Joan Hinton, a truly revolutionary woman. But her contribution to the struggle remains, and her bite will continue to be felt by U.S. imperialism as more and more proletarians like herself join the revolutionary movement toward socialism.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14203&news_iv_ctrl=1261
Manhattan Project physicist and Chinese dairy farmer dies at 88
By The New York Times
Posted: 06/13/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
Joan Hinton, 88, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the atom bomb but who spent most of her life working on dairy farms in China, died Tuesday in Beijing.
She had an abdominal aneurysm, said her son, Bill Engst.
Hinton was recruited for the Manhattan Project in February 1944 while a graduate student in physics at the University of Wisconsin. In Los Alamos, N.M., she was assigned to a team that built two reactors for testing enriched uranium and plutonium.
Hinton thought the bomb would be used for a demonstration explosion. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, she became a peace activist.
In 1948, she moved to China, where she met her future husband, Erwin Engst, a Cornell- trained dairy-cattle expert who went on to work as a breeder while she designed and built machinery. The New York Times
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/UploadFiles/201006/2010060900114042.jpg (http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/UploadFiles/201006/2010060900114042.jpg)
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/201006/157557.html
Video: International communist fighter Joan Hinton comrade memorial
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/201006/161022.html
Introduction：http://baike.baidu.com/view/1495132.htm?fr=ala0_1
Video: Joan Hinton commemorate the 116th anniversary of birth of Mao Zedong
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class16/200912/122204.html
Video: Joan Hinton commemorate the 115th anniversary of birth of Mao Zedong
http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class14/200812/62690.html
In a 1996 interview with CNN, after nearly 50 years in China, she stated “[we] never intended to stay in China so long, but were too caught up to leave.” Hinton described the changes she and her husband had witnessed in China since the beginning of the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. They stated they “have watched their socialist dream fall apart” as much of China embraced capitalism. A 2004 MSNBC interviews noted her critical assessment of economic change as “betrayals of the socialist cause.” She noted what she describes as a rise of exploitation in Chinese society.
"It would have been terrific if Mao had lived. . . Of course I was 100% behind everything that happened in the Cultural Revolution—it was a terrific experience." ——Joan Hinton