Among those who criticize Chen Ke in later generations, one of the main means of disparagement is the belief that Chen Ke was a demonic scientist. All the scientific research projects in his life were related to the military, that is to say, slaughtering humanity was his research direction.

Of course, there are also a very small number of people who claim that Chen Ke's lifelong scientific achievements were all stolen from others. For example, 606 and 914 were You Gou's contributions, and synthetic ammonia was just Chen Ke attributing the achievements of the People's Party's scientific research department to his own name, and that a large amount of American technology was used in the research process. As for other scientific research achievements, Chen Ke basically used his status as a national leader to improperly steal the achievements of his students. However, this type of statement has never been the mainstream cognition. All scientific and technical workers related to these researches have comprehensively refuted this. Everyone believes that Chen Ke pioneeringly pointed out many ideas for scientific and technological development, and clearly pointed out the theoretical and process directions at the time. A large number of scientists advanced continuously along the path pointed out by Chen Ke, and achieved amazing results.

The Chinese scientific community reached a consensus that the path pointed out by Chen Ke greatly saved the problem of direction selection that often occurs in the process of scientific development. Although there was the problem of national will forcibly controlling scientific research, overall, with China's very limited funds and manpower at the time, great success was achieved in the development direction pointed out by Chen Ke. Moreover, in his later years, Chen Ke also committed himself to eliminating administrative interference in scientific research. At that time, China also had the spare capacity to invest in other research directions. Since the Chinese scientific community is very good at absorbing the mistakes of others, China instead obtained more and better experience and development from the failed explorations carried out in other countries.

Of course, there are not many people who believe that Chen Ke was a fraud who fished for fame, and this view has never been accepted by the Chinese and foreign scientific communities.

However, in the process of military technology research and development, from the study of many first-hand and subsequent related materials, the historical academic community has a different view. Both relatively orthodox historical researchers in China and abroad believe that Chen Ke strongly promoted the balance of nuclear terror and vigorously proclaimed the theory of nuclear winter. Although there was a strategic motive of nuclear blackmail in strategy, the balance of nuclear terror ensured that there were no large-scale wars spanning the globe after World War II. Whenever a nuclear crisis appeared, Chen Ke and Li Runshi tried their best to propose strategies that could ease contradictions and ensure balance. When the three major powers of China, the United States, and the Soviet Union became accustomed to the balance of nuclear terror and finally determined the strategy that it was impossible to eliminate the opponent by force, the whole world finally entered a true period of peace.

If viewed from this angle, Chen Ke's goal was long-term peace, and the strategy he constructed indeed ensured long-term peace.

Of course, there are many people who hold the opposite attitude. For example, some people insist that the "Global Nuclear Disarmament Treaty" and the "Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty" signed in the 80s were one of Chen Ke's biggest strategic deceptions. China had already completed the research and development of fourth-generation nuclear weapons at that time, and had solved the maintenance problem of long-term storage of nuclear weapons. During the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the two countries conducted large-scale production and equipment solidly for nuclear war. While China's nuclear weapons development and nuclear tests were certainly equally frequent, their purpose was entirely for the development of fourth-generation nuclear weapons.

After the signing of the final "Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty", China built its own nuclear arsenal with more advanced technology, lower costs, and better maintenance. While depleting the opponent's strength in vain, it allowed China's supercomputers to obtain unprecedented development.

Regardless of which view, the balance of terror of nuclear weapons ensured the long-term peace of the world, and China was undoubtedly the country that first created and adapted to this environment, and at the same time obtained great development.

China's entry into the era of nuclear power from coal power coincided with the entire process of spanning from nuclear panic to accepting the fact of nuclear balance. "Project Zhurong" itself is a model of the peaceful use of nuclear technology, and is undoubtedly a classic manifestation of Chen Ke's superb strategic view.