Nuclear arms for conventional threats: China’s nuclear modernisation and emerging technologies

A strategic doctrine based on this concept would require “suffi cient counterforce and counter-value tactical, theater, and strategic nuclear forces to deter the escalation

In the last quarter century, Asia has become home to four modernizing nuclear weapon powers (China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea) and is now the epicenter of the “second

28 As one Chinese scholar put it, the Middle East is far away, and China already has four nuclear- armed states as neighbours, in addition to being in range of the

On the other hand, were China to enhance its nuclear capability to, say, counter the US ABM shield (as indeed they have threatened to do), then India may be forced to

113 At the same time, Beijing’s desire to engage the Arctic Council can also be looked at through the lens of broader and ongoing Chinese concerns, not only regarding

As international nuclear arms control stands poised to move beyond agreements limiting strategic delivery systems, and the international com- munity tries to shrink the noose

(China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) failed to reach a final agreement trading restrictions on Iran’s development of its nuclear

The current nuclear force structures of India and China, built around these doctrinal principles, foster strategic stability.. However, contemporary global nuclear developments