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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.
Apr 7, 2018 · The development of China’s nuclear arsenal was influenced by several factors: Mao’s thoughts on military technology and nuclear weapons, the leaders’ nationalist attitude, the strategic situation of China in the 1950s—during which Beijing’s policymakers experienced the risk of nuclear blackmail in repeated international crises (Korea, Indochina,...
- Paolo Rosa
- paolo.rosa@unitn.it
- 2018
Oct 27, 2020 · Qian is the father of China's missile and space programme. His research helped develop the rockets that fired China's first satellite into space, and missiles that became part of its nuclear...
Oct 16, 2014 · Edited by William Burr. For more information, contact: 202-994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu. Subjects. Regions. Project. The first Chinese nuclear test, 16 October 1964, had an explosive yield of 22 kilotons (Photo from Web site of Comprehensive Test Ban Organization)
The Chinese nuclear weapons program was initiated on 15 January 1955. The decision made by the Chinese leadership was prompted by confrontations with the United States in the 1950s, including the Korean War, the 1955 Taiwan Straits Crisis, nuclear blackmail, and eventually the Vietnam War as well. [5] .
Aug 5, 2021 · Geopolitics Drives China’s Modernization. For decades, China has worried about how U.S. military capabilities—like missile defense and conventional precision strike weapons—could undermine the credibility of China’s capacity to retaliate against a nuclear attack.
