1. Office of the Secretary of Defense, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2013 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, May 2013), p. 30. According to the Department of Defense, “The PLA has deployed new command, control, and communications capabilities to its nuclear forces. These capabilities improve the Second Artillery’s ability to command and control multiple units in the field.”
2. Information Office of the State Council, China’s National Defense in 2010 (Beijing, China: Information Office of the State Council, People’s Republic of China, March 31, 2011).
3. See, for example, Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris, “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2013,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 69, No. 6 (November, 2013), pp. 79–85.
4. Jing Zhiyuan, “Jianshe jinggan youxiao zhanlue daodan budui wei weihu shijie he anquan gongxian liliang” (Creating a Lean and Effective Strategic Missile Troop Contributing to International Nuclear Security), Zhongguo jundui (China Military), Vol. 6, No. 2 (2010), pp. 4–7.
5. Pugwash Meeting;P Zhenqiang,2002