Word: bomb
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Will They Use It? In view of all this, why aren't China's neighbors more worried? One experienced U.S. observer in Hong Kong says: "They aren't scaring worth a damn." They are nevertheless impressed that economically backward China accomplished the feat of building the bomb. Throughout Asia and Africa, among nations that vociferously disapproved of U.S. atomic tests, there is a certain racial satisfaction that another white man's monopoly has been broken. There is some talk that India and Japan might now try to build bombs of their...
...question has been raised in the U.S., Australia and elsewhere whether Red China should be "enucleated" by bombing her atomic plants. The U.S. is evidently opposed to this, in the absence of some Chinese aggression. Quite apart from possible Russian reaction, the Chinese themselves could strike back simply by allowing their armies to overrun Southeast Asia and thereby involving the U.S. in a major war. At any rate, U.S. experts seem convinced that the Chinese will not use their bomb...
...their tough talk about aiding revolutions and wars of "liberation," they have pursued a cautious policy, holding back from Quemoy and Matsu, for instance, and never really pressing their successful invasion of India. The Chinese understand, or must be made to understand. Washington feels, that their use of the bomb could bring instant retaliation from the U.S. and with it the destruction of their major cities and industries...
Besides, the Chinese do not need to use the bomb. Peking's 2,500,000-man army, backed by 15 million reservists, police and militiamen, is the largest ground force in the world. Supported by four artillery and armored divisions (the latter mostly equipped with Russian T-34 tanks), the forces are presently placed in Manchuria, around Peking, along the coast between Shanghai and Canton, in South China, and in the southwest opposite India. Since early this year, they have been undergoing intensified small-unit training. Though their military equipment is largely World War II vintage and their supply...
...invasions, believes that Peking has a reasonably healthy respect for the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the U.S. air forces stationed at island bases throughout the Pacific. China can obviously continue to rely on subversion and revolution, methods with which it is doing extremely well. This, rather than the Chinese bomb or even the Chinese army, is the basic challenge...