ABSTRACT
Until the late 1980s, the Soviet Union did not follow any well-defined policy toward the proliferation of missiles and accompanying technologies. In the late 1950s, Moscow decided to provide the People's Republic of China with various missile hardware and their technologies. Reportedly, in 1956 the USSR sold to Beijing two tactical R-l missiles and their blueprints, shorter-range R-2 missiles, and R-11FM SLBM. Besides that, Chinese students were able to smuggle blueprints of R-5 and R-l 2 IRBMs back to China. This transmission of hardware and technologies played an important role in developing the first Chinese DF-1 ballistic missile. 1 There was also evidence that Moscow transferred to the Chinese blueprints of the V-2 missile acquired in occupied Germany after World War II.
