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Book China Builds the Bomb

Download or read book China Builds the Bomb written by John Wilson Lewis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering political-scientific history. . . . Lucidly composed, meticulously documented, and handsomely presented. The Annals A fascinating and compelling story of the beginnings of the Chinese nuclear weapon program. Arms Control Today"

Book Bomb  Book and Compass

Download or read book Bomb Book and Compass written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life - Miss Lu, and China. Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat. He established himself as the pre-eminent China scholar of all time, firm in his belief that China would one day achieve world prominence. By the end of his life, Needham had become a truly global figure, travelling endlessly and honoured by all - though banned from America because of his politics. And in 1989, after a fifty-two year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion. The Magnificent Barbarian is Simon Winchester at his best - at once a magnificent portrait of one man's remarkable life and a riveting exploration of the country that so engaged him.

Book China Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Tregaskis
  • Publisher : New York : Avon Books
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book China Bomb written by Richard Tregaskis and published by New York : Avon Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and International Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

Download or read book China and International Nuclear Weapons Proliferation written by Henrik Stålhane Hiim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores China’s approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. A major power with access to nuclear technology, China has a significant impact on international nuclear weapons proliferation, but its attitude towards the spread of the bomb has been inconsistent. China’s mixed record raises a broader question: why, when and how do states support potential nuclear proliferators? This book develops a framework for analyzing such questions, by putting forth three factors that are likely to determine a state’s policy: (1) the risk of changes in the nuclear status or military doctrines of competitors; (2) the recipient’s status and strategic value; and (3) the extent of pressure from third parties to halt nuclear assistance. It then demonstrates how these factors help explain China’s policies towards Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. Overall, the book finds that China has been a selective and strategic supporter of nuclear proliferators. While nuclear proliferation is a security challenge to China in some settings, in others, it wants to help its friends build the bomb. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, nuclear proliferation, Chinese foreign policy and International Relations in general.

Book Made in China

Download or read book Made in China written by Anna Qu and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.

Book China and the Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morton H. Halperin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book China and the Bomb written by Morton H. Halperin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and the Bomb

Download or read book China and the Bomb written by Ken Coates and published by Spokesman Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China Offensive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theresa L. Kraus
  • Publisher : Department of the Army
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book China Offensive written by Theresa L. Kraus and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 1996 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price A series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. High school students and above writing research papers about World War II and China may find this volume and the series beneficial. Military leaders, soldiers, historians, and World War II enthusiasts will want this book included in their collection. All libraries should include this print volume in their World War II reference collections. Related products: Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061 Congressional Executive Commission on China Annual Report, 2015 can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01573-6 US-China Economic & Security Review Commission Annual Report 2012 can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/052-071-01559-1 A New Type of Great Power Relationship Between the United States and China: the Military Dimension can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01123-1 United States Army in World War 2, China-Burma-India Theater, Stilwell\'s Command Problems --Clothbound format is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00074-1?ctid=143 Imperialism with Chinese Characteristics?: Reading and Re-Reading China\'s 2006 Defense White Paper is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01605-5 China resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/asia/china "

Book A Few Planes for China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eugenie Buchan
  • Publisher : University Press of New England
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 1512601292
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book A Few Planes for China written by Eugenie Buchan and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the following months, the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies. Nonetheless, in those dark days, the US press began to pick up reports about a group of American mercenaries who were bringing down enemy planes over Burma and western China. The pilots quickly became known as Flying Tigers, and a legend was born. But who were these flyers for hire and how did they wind up in the British colony of Burma? The standard version of events is that in 1940 Colonel Claire Chennault went to Washington and convinced the Roosevelt administration to establish, fund, and equip covert air squadrons that could attack the Japanese in China and possibly bomb Tokyo even before a declaration of war existed between the United States and Japan. That was hardly the case: although present at its creation, Chennault did not create the American Volunteer Group. In A Few Planes for China, Eugenie Buchan draws on wide-ranging new sources to overturn seventy years of received wisdom about the genesis of the Flying Tigers. This strange experiment in airpower was accidental rather than intentional; haphazard decisions and changing threat perceptions shaped its organization and deprived it of resources. In the end it was the British - more than any American in or out of government - who got the Tigers off the ground. On the eve of Pearl Harbor, the most important man behind the Flying Tigers was not Claire Chennault but Winston Churchill.

Book Red China s  capitalist Bomb

Download or read book Red China s capitalist Bomb written by Jonathan Ray and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines why China developed and tested an enhanced radiation weapon (ERW) but did not deploy it. He uses primary source documents to reconstruct the ERW program's history, assesses drivers behind decisions throughout the program, and considers broader implications for PRC decision making on weapons development. He concludes that the ERW coalition's rise and fall, the "principles" approach employed by the weaponeers, and the final decision to added the ERW to China's 'technology reserve' present plausible explanations to key questions. He also considers how the 'technology reserve' model might apply to China's decision-making on current ballistic missile defense (BMD), antisatellite (ASAT), and hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) programs.

Book Chennault s Forgotten Warriors

Download or read book Chennault s Forgotten Warriors written by Carroll V. Glines and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 308ths wide-ranging activities through nearly three years of bitter air warfare are described here by reknowned author C.V. Glines.

Book Seeking the Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vipin Narang
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 0691172625
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Seeking the Bomb written by Vipin Narang and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies—hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.

Book China s Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph L.. Powell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book China s Bomb written by Ralph L.. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and the Bomb

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  • Author : Julian C. Arhire
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-10
  • ISBN : 9781543030617
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book China and the Bomb written by Julian C. Arhire and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 16th, 1964, the People's Republic of China (PRC) joined the nuclear club when it tested a nuclear device at its Lop Nur test site in Inner Mongolia. For several years, the CIA had been monitoring Chinese developments, often with anxiety, hampered by the lack of adequate sources. Documents include intelligence estimates and analyses reflecting efforts by the CIA to forecast when Beijing could and would test a weapon and what its diplomatic and military implications could be. Whatever else this first atomic test signifies, it constitutes a major historical landmark in the course of events that began when China was defeated by Britain in the Opium War. The Chinese dragon indeed has awakened.

Book Peril

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Woodward
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-01-03
  • ISBN : 198218292X
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Peril written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as #1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the center of the turmoil, resulting in more than 6,000 pages of transcripts—and a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink. This classic study of Washington takes readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with eyewitness accounts of what really happened. Intimate scenes are supplemented with never-before-seen material from secret orders, transcripts of confidential calls, diaries, emails, meeting notes and other personal and government records, making Peril an unparalleled history. It is also the first inside look at Biden’s presidency as he began his presidency facing the challenges of a lifetime: the continuing deadly pandemic and millions of Americans facing soul-crushing economic pain, all the while navigating a bitter and disabling partisan divide, a world rife with threats, and the hovering, dark shadow of the former president.

Book China in Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heung Shing Liu
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789888139507
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book China in Revolution written by Heung Shing Liu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China in Revolution is a survey of historical photographs from leading collections around the world. The images stretch from the Second Opium War to the Boxer Rebellion and wars with Russia and Japan, the outbreak of revolution, through the rise and fall of Yuan Shikai and the ensuing warlord era.

Book Spying on the Bomb  American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

Download or read book Spying on the Bomb American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea written by Jeffrey Richelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Spying on the Bomb' focuses on the past & present nuclear activities of various countries, intermingling what the US believed was happening with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's laboratories, test sites and decision-making councils.