One of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army, the 十大元帅. From the late 1950s he led the defence science work behind China's 两弹一星: the atom bomb, missiles and the first satellite.
Niè Róngzhēn yuánshuài zhǔchí le Zhōngguó zǎoqī de héwǔqì yánzhì.
Marshal Nie Rongzhen oversaw China's early nuclear weapons development.
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In 1940 his troops found two Japanese girls orphaned in the fighting, and he sent them back to the Japanese army with a letter. Forty years later the elder, Mihoko, visited him in Beijing. He was the last of the ten marshals to die, in 1992.
