Outlook for the Seventies: Strategic and Technological

Volume:33
Issue: 5
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So far the Chinese have carried out ten nuclear tests which include one underground test, one test of a nuclear-tipped missile and three thermo-nuclear tests. In other words, the Chinese are on a comprehensive weapons programme, which will give them thermo-nuclear warheads from the megaton range down to small yield nuclear weapons of a few kiloton range and even fractional kiloton range. They are now engaged in improving the compactness of their warheads.

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Posted On: September 1, 2009

Keywords: China, Nuclear Weapons