The United States Intelligence Community's Assessment and Forecast of China's Nuclear Weapon Program (1955-1967)

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2007.03.004

Abstract

Abstract:

From 1955 onward China intended to develop nuclear weapons and till 1967 it conducted a thermonuclear test successfully.China made accelerated progress in its nuclear techniques.Even though the United States intelligence community made a clearly wrong judgment on the fissionable material of China's first nuclear test and underestimated China's capabilities of developing thermonuclear weapons, it outlined the Chinese nuclear weapon program on the whole.

Key words: CIA, nuclear weapon, national intelligence estimate (NIE)

CLC Number:

K153

Xin ZHAN. The United States Intelligence Community's Assessment and Forecast of China's Nuclear Weapon Program (1955-1967)[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2007, 39(3): 19-24.

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