China's Undersea Dragons | The Pursuit Force of Nuclear Armed Ballistic Missile Submarines

The 1930s and 40s were time a of great pain for the Chinese people. Exploited by nearly all of the great foreign powers for decades, its vast population were largely impoverished and with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 which had ruled the country since the mid-17th century, political instability broke the country up into factions. Then of course came the second world war, the Japanese occupation of China saw acts of brutality against the Chinese population that would be considered barbaric even by the standards of the dark ages. Then came Civil War, ending in 1949 when Mao Zedong emerged victorious and communism ruled the country. The newly founded People’s Republic of China found itself in a precarious position, however. Sapped by years of warfare and strife, the country was now at odds with an increasingly hostile United States that was dominated by an anti-communist mania. Remembering how the US defeated their great enemy Japan with atom bombs, Chairman Mao and the communists knew they needed an answer to America’s superweapons which were soon coming not just from the air but under the sea. In today’s episode of Wars of the World, we are going to look at the history of China’s efforts to develop the ultimate weapon. This is the story of China’s undersea dragons; its pursuit force of nuclear armed ballistic missile submarines or SSBNs. Welcome to Wars of the World.

0:00 Introduction
2:07 Red China and the Atom
6:54 Got to Start Somewhere
11:32 Huge Wave-1 and Fish Hook
14:54 Going Nuclear
19:49 Deterrence at Last
27:27 Diesel Oddity
30:47 The Future

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Narrated by: Will Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade
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