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Stephen Schwartz
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Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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During 1960-64, US officials considered various ways to neutralize a nuclear-armed China, from a 1961 Air Force proposal to provide US nuclear weapons to allies and others in the region (including India), to, in 1963-64, pre-emptive strikes on Chinese facilities. www.belfercenter.org/sites/defaul...

The first page of the article “Whether to ‘Strangle the Baby in the Cradle’: The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64,”by William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson, published in the Winter 2000/01 issue of “International Security.”
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To read the formerly classified documents underpinning those very sensitive discussions, plus other documents published on the 50th anniversary of the test, see these 2001 (nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...) National Security Archive briefing books.

A screenshot of the first National Security Archive web page in the link, “The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964."
A screenshot of the second National Security Archive web page in the link, “China's First Nuclear Test 1964 — 50th Anniversary."
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Editor/Co-author, “Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940” • I write primarily about nuclear weapons (including history, costs, accidents, and policy), and the Presidential Emergency Satchel (aka the nuclear “Football”).
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