China's nuclear forces: An assessment

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Volumn 98, Issue 629, 1999, Pages 260-263

  Godwin, Paul H B ^a,b  

^a National War College   (United States)

^b Asia Pacific Program of the Atlantic Council   (United States)

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EID: 0039774181     PISSN: 00113530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (4)

1. United States House of Representatives, Select Committee on United States National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, The Cox Report on Chinese Espionage. Report prepared by Representative Christopher Cox (R-CA) (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, May 1999).
2. Data on China's nuclear weapons are taken from the "Natural Resources Defense Council Nuclear Notebook: China's Nuclear Forces 1999," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-June 1999.
3. The following discussion draws extensively from Alastair I. Johnston, "China's New 'Old Thinking': The Concept of Limited Deterrence," International Security, Winter 1995-1996, pp. 5-42.
4. This discussion draws on the Director of Central Intelligence Statement on Damage Assessment, April 21, 1999; and the statement of United States Representative John Spratt (D-SC), Release of the Select Committee Report Technology Transfers to China, May 25, 1999.