China and Nuclear Proliferation: I.

The article presents the first part of a two-part series about the views of Chinese on nuclear proliferation. According to the Chinese, nuclear weapons can only be finally eliminated and total nuclear disarmament achieved after a number of additional countries get nuclear weapons. From the start, Chinese recognized from the start the danger to them created by the American monopoly of first atomic and then hydrogen weapons, but they were relieved by the Soviet development of weapons capabilities.