1. Vago Muradian, “China Attempted to Blind U.S. Satellites with Laser,” Defense News, September 22, 2006; Joseph Kahn, “China Confirms Test of Anti-Satellite Weapon,” New York Times, January 23, 2007.
2. Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, “U.S. Nuclear Forces,” The Atomic Bulletin 63, no. 1 (2007).
3. Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press, “The End of Mad? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy,” International Security 30, no. 4 (2006).
4. Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press, “U.S. Nuclear Primacy and the Future of the Chinese Deterrent,” China Security, no. 5 (2007). Lieber and Press also note the potential for one positive result from the perspective of U.S. policymakers: coercive power that would come from dominating the nuclear escalatory ladder.
5. William C. Potter, “Coping with MIRV in a Mad World,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 22, no. 4 (1978).