China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age

by Litai Xue and John W. Lewis

Book Overview

This book recounts why and how China built a nuclear submarine fleet, and looks at the impact of the effort on politics, technology, industry and strategy. China expanded the scientific and industrial system that produced an atomic bomb to launch a 30-year drive for nuclear submarines with solid-fuel missiles. The story involves the interplay of politics, technology and social change in the tumultuous years 1958 to 1990. These years saw the rupture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723036
• ISBN13: 9780804723039
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"