The Development of Communist China's Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons : 1945-1957

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Communist China's attitude toward nuclear weapons during the period beginning from its response to the explosion of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima to its grand debate on a strategy to cope with nuclear attacks in 1957. More specially, the purpose of this study is to examine Communist China's pattern of behavior to a nuclear environment; to identify the problems that the nuclear environment posed for the Chinese Communists, and how the Chinese Communists debated on these problems.