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Comment: China and Nuclear Weapons.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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China tested its first device at Lop Nur on 16 October 1964 and declared the same day that it would never be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time or under any circumstances. For half a century it kept a small arsenal under a doctrine of assured retaliation. Since about 2020 it has…

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  • The making of a nuclear China
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