This book is a comprehensive study of the development of China’s nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). It offers insights into the secretive world of nuclear submarines and ballistic missiles of the Chinese (PLA) Navy and studies how these are likely to grow in the next two decades. The volume examines the technological origins of the design and development of Chinese nuclear submarines, ballistic missiles, and their naval construction capabilities. It provides an analysis of the underlying Chinese nuclear doctrine, China’s maritime geographical constraints for submarine operations, and the credibility of its sea-based deterrence. It draws upon strategy, nuclear policy, technology, geography, and operational considerations to holistically predict the likely SSBN force levels of the PLA Navy for various scenarios. The book also assesses the spectrum of threats likely from the undersea domain for India and other nations in the Indo-Pacific region. A key text on an obscure but vital facet of Chinese defence studies, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of strategic affairs, international relations and disarmament studies, peace and conflict studies, geopolitics, foreign policy, Indo-Pacific studies, and diplomacy.

Photographer and journalist travel together to Vietnam's coastline to capture life there.

In the early twentieth century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Two of the world’s top assassins—fraternal twins separated from birth, but inevitably drawn to the same kind of women—find themselves married to a pair of sorceresses. When their firm schedules the hit men for cancellation, the brothers' one escape is through the women they love into a realm of magic, dragons, and warlocks, which will require both the assassins' and the sorceresses' skills to survive. *** note: all the books in the series, Blood Brothers, are stand-alones, with complete story arcs.

Determined to grow up to be a hunter of dinosaur fossils, Barnum Brown gets an assignment by the American Museum of Natural History and soon is exploring the Badlands of Montana and Canada where he makes the discovery of a lifetime--the very first Tyrannosaurus rex!

Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.