Acknowledgements

For helpful comments and support, I thank Justin Anderson, Ari C. Anisfeld, Philip Atkinson, Gerald C. Brown, John Chen, Thomas J. Christensen, Christopher F. Chyba, Fiona S. Cunningham, Aaron Friedberg, Sarah Gamberini, Hans M. Kristensen, Scott LaFoy, Lynn Lee, Phillip C. Saunders, Eric Snyder, Mark Stokes, Joel Wuthnow, Tong Zhao, members of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University, and participants in the Princeton University Security Studies Graduate Research Seminar. Research for this article was conducted, in part, while the author was an expert consultant with the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the U.S. National Defense University. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Defense University, the Department of Defense, the U.S. government, or any of the below funders.