TY - BOOK AU - Lei Liu TI - 'Dog-beating stick': General Zhang Aiping's contribution to the modernisation of China's nuclear force and strategy since 1977 PY - 2018/// KW - CHINA KW - NUCLEAR STRATEGY N2 - This article is on the breakthrough of the development of strategic nuclear weapons and employment policy led by the second generation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). By the middle 1980s, the Chinese military had successfully developed China's first generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), and communication satellites, which provided China with an elementary and limited second-strike capability UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2018.1434507 ER -