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The United States government was aware of Soviet support of a Chinese nuclear program, but after the Soviets withdrew support in 1959, some U.S. officials underestimated the sole capability of China to develop a nuclear weapon, and were surprised when China's efforts proved successful.
Jul 19, 2018 · The Chinese nuclear program was aided by its considerable access to Western atomic secrets. For example, China may have benefited from the defection of American physicist Joan Hinton in 1948 (Reed and Stillman 87). Hinton had worked on the “Fat Man” plutonium implosion bomb at Los Alamos and witnessed the Trinity Test.
Jan 12, 2001 · The Kennedy administration's recognition that China would test a nuclear weapon prompted State Department officials to initiate an overt and covert public information program designed to influence world, especially Asian, thinking about the significance of a Chinese nuclear capability.
Jun 10, 2021 · Especially after Fukushima, China’s central government and the CCP are fully aware that a severe accident at a nuclear power plant in China would pose an existential threat to the party and the state, because they are responsible for all strategic decision making in the nuclear technology sphere.
Oct 28, 2014 · Here are some of the most notable reactions from the National Security Archive's release of 33 documents related to China's historic first nuclear test. Taiwanese leaders wanted to launch a...
Aug 10, 2017 · President Lyndon B. Johnson, who assumed office after Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, was wary of using force against China’s nuclear program, worried that it could set off a large...
Mar 7, 2024 · The core U.S. concern is likely that improvements in China’s nuclear arsenal, even if intended only to improve survivability, will reduce the U.S. ability to limit damage in the worst-case...
