The India–China Nuclear Relationship

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. John W. Garver, Protracted Contest: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Century, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2001; Arpit Rajain, Nuclear Deterrence in Asia: China, India and Pakistan, Sage, New Delhi, 2005. 2. On the Berlin confrontation, see Raymond L. Garthoff, ‘Berlin 1961: The Record Corrected’, Foreign Policy, 84, 1984, pp. 142–156. On the Cuban Missile Crisis, see Don Munton and David A. Welch, The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. 3. Gordon H. Chang, Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1990, pp. 285–286. 4. Rajesh M. Basrur, Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2006; M. Taylor Fravel and Evan S. Medeiros, ‘China's Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure’, International Security, 35(2), 2010, pp. 48–87; Jeffrey Lewis, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2008. 5. John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2006, pp. 51–72. 6. Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty, Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005. 7. ‘China's Nuclear Tests: Dates, Yields, Types, Methods, and Comments’, Nuclear Threat Initiative, at http://www.nti.org/db/china/testlist.htm; ‘Soviet Nuclear Test Summary’, at http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovtestsum.html; ‘Gallery of US Nuclear Tests’, at http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/index.html. 8. Rajesh Rajagopalan, ‘India: The Logic of Assured Retaliation’, in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 188–214. 9. Srinath Raghavan, ‘Tawang: Why China Gets All Worked Up’, The Asian Age, at http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/opinion/opinion/tawang-why-china-gets-all-worked-up.aspx. 10. Srinath Raghavan, ‘Case for Restraint on Tibet’, Economic and Political Weekly, 43(14), 5–11 April 2008, p. 17. 11. John W. Garver, ‘The Security Dilemma in Sino-Indian Relations’, India Review, 1(4), October 2002, pp. 12–22. 12. Srinath Raghavan, ‘Case for Restraint on Tibet’, no. 10. 13. ‘China: Teachers Sign Petition in Support of Tibetan Language’, New York Times, October 25, 2010, at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/world/asia/26briefs-TIBET.html?ref=world. 14. Srinath Raghavan, ‘Case for Restraint on Tibet’, no. 10. 15. ‘China's Provinces: Digging One Layer Deep’, Deutsch Bank, 25 February 2010, at http://www.dbresearch.de/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_DE-PROD/PROD0000000000254347.pdf. 16. Ibid. 17. ‘Spat over Spratlys’, Financial Times, 3 August 2010, at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/970725de-9f32-11df-8732-00144feabdc0.html. 18. Thomas Robinson, ‘The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict of 1969: New Evidence Three Decades Later’, in Mark A. Ryan, David Michael Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt (eds.), Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience since 1949, M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2003.