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
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60548 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5831-8949 |