Assuring Assured Retaliation: China's Nuclear Posture and U.S.-China Strategic Stability

Whether China will abandon its long-standing nuclear strategy of assured retaliation for a first-use posture will be a critical factor in future U.S.-China strategic stability. In the past decade, advances in U.S. strategic capabilities, especially missile defenses and enhanced long-range convention...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fravel, M. Taylor, Cunningham, Fiona Stephanie
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101390
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