Great Power's Long Sword: A Chronicle of China's Strategic Missile Forces

Author: Xu Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: On October 1, 1984, the 35th anniversary of National Day, no one could have imagined that the strategic missile forces, hailed as the pride of the Chinese military and as silent as thunder, had suddenly emerged from behind the mysterious curtain of history after Western military observers had searched for them in vain for over a decade. Like the success of China's atomic bomb back then, the entire world was shocked.