| Description |
159 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Adelphi series, ISSN 1944-5571 |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: China's current nuclear-missile force -- Second Artillery force structure -- Operational practices -- Conclusion -- ch. Five Strategic stability and regional security -- Pathologies in Sino-American dialogues -- Mutual vulnerability -- Regional security and US security guarantees -- Sprint to parity -- Alert operations -- Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Chinese views of nuclear weapons -- The Korean War and after -- Paper tigers -- No-first-use -- Politics of command-and-control -- Developing operational concepts -- Contemporary Chinese thinking -- Conclusion -- ch. Two Nuclear-weapons design and testing -- China's nuclear-testing history -- China's early nuclear-weapons designs -- China develops thermonuclear weapons -- China tries to miniaturise -- Two poems: China develops a neutron bomb (1977--1988) -- China's modern warheads -- Stockpile stewardship -- Allegations of espionage -- Conclusion -- ch. Three China's fissile material production -- Historical narrative -- Estimating fissile-material production -- China's HEU facilities -- Plutonium -- Conclusion -- ch. Four China's Missile Forces -- Developing ballistic missiles -- Establishing the Second Artillery Corps -- Developing solid-fuelled missiles -- Growing importance of conventionally armed ballistic missiles -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nuclear weapons -- China.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114647
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| LC no. |
2014486328 |
| ISBN |
9781138907140 |
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