China's Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure
After exploding its first nuclear device in 1964, China did not develop sufficient forces or doctrine to overcome its vulnerability to a first strike by the United States or the Soviet Union for more than three decades. Two factors explain this puzzling willingness to live with nuclear vulnerability...
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MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University,
2011-01-13T20:04:06Z.
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