The Sino-Soviet War without Nukes

So how could we get a war between a communist China and Soviet without having nukes as a major factor? Earlier war?
 
Yes !

in 1970 on a diplomatic party, the Sovjet diplomat Andrei Gromyko ask
US diplomat Henry Kissinger this:

"will the USA intervene, wen USSR attack China with nuclear wapons ?"

"Yes we will intervene with nuclear wapons !" answer Kissinger loud !

the Chines diplomat notice this and start the Ping Pong Diplomacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Pong_Diplomacy

Source: " War and Peace in the Nuclear Age" by John Newhouse

so you got a good base for China and Soviet war without Nuclear Wapons.
 
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