Any effective use of Chinese Nuclear weapons during the War.

[Olefin]

all depends on how heavy the Russians might have hit those facilities during the war before it went nuclear - they could have been priority targets and no new nukes after war start -or they could be building like crazy right up to the first nuke strike

also depends on where they are located - its one thing if Manchuria or northern china - easy strike targets - hitting them in south China is different though

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Olefin

all depends on how heavy the Russians might have hit those facilities during the war before it went nuclear - they could have been priority targets and no new nukes after war start -or they could be building like crazy right up to the first nuke strike

also depends on where they are located - its one thing if Manchuria or northern china - easy strike targets - hitting them in south China is different though

Found this



Don't know the timing of this data but they seem to have spread the R&D facilities around.

edit
It actually looks like this map was last updated sometime before 1999. Ironically they feel that reduces it worth but makes it more appropriate for us

http://cns.miis.edu/china/index.htm

[kato13]

http://cns.miis.edu/archive/country_...nuc/nstock.htm

Good numbers here from Nov 1996

[Matt Wiser]

Remember, people, some of the PRC's nuclear forces are inherently survivable. Their IRBMs and MRBMs can be mobile if need be, and some of the latter can be stored in caves instead of silos, and moved to presurveyed launch positions. Though their SSBN force is a far different story: they have the boats, but no workable missile....

[Targan]

This is excellent. How have we never had this discussion before?

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Targan

This is excellent. How have we never had this discussion before?

I was surprised as well.

I just went through the Soviet Vehicle Guide to find how many divisions were subjected to nuclear strikes (with damage meriting a mention) per theater.

13 Europe/Western Asia
3 Middle East
1 Far East (and this one is attributed to Soviet Strikes)

While this might be attributable to the Chinese inability to hit moving targets, they still could hit potentially hit fixed targets like ports.