China's Worst Nightmare: Imagine If Taiwan Had Nuclear Weapons

Kyle Mizokami

Security,

Beijing would have a big problem with this. 

Another, far worse possibility is that Taiwan could have developed a larger, city-killing bomb. This could have been used to threaten Beijing directly, trading the destruction of one government for another, and would have been a more useful deterrent. Still, the 1,800-mile distance it would take to deliver a nuke on Beijing was at the time as insurmountable as the Taiwan Strait itself. Not even Israel...