China's strategic force are Tr.:. -16 and Tu-'! nedium-rangle bombers. Chinars stockpile of reapons, fission and fusi.on, probably amount s to 225*300 with fission lrarhead yields in the 20-\0 kt. range and. fusion ltarheads of 3-4 Mt. G. !gf_t rcaf_-lugfgar forces l+5. Tacticel nuclear veapons are coumon terms for those nuclear weapons systems vhich, by virtue of their range and yield as velL as the l"ey they are incorporated in a mititary organization have been ilesigned of can be used for empl-oynentA/35/392 English Annex Page 2I ags'inst rdlitary targets in a theatre of var- !./ such we'pons are artilrery.hells, grounrl mobile rockets and missifes- aii-raunched b-mbs, rockets andmissiles (r^rith nircraft operating fron carriers as welr as fand bases) and atonicdemolition munitions ( land nines"). llaval forces of this kind conFrisesubnarine -lamached cruise or ba^llistic rnissiles. torpedoes and short rarge,submarine -launched anti- submarine warfere lockets. Gromd-based systems haveranges from about L5 kra. (artillery) to several hundreds of f"n. (nearry rnissiles).Yield nay va.ry from less than 0..1 to nore than 1OO kt, lf . A" fol short range (under BOo lfl) bal-l-i3tic missites (SRBI,4)., the UnitedStates _has deployed in Europe some tO8 pershing in the high--kiloton range anclsone 35 Lance ln the low-kiloton range_ while itre Soviet Union has sorne 1,300Frog 7. ss-lb, ss-1c, ss-'12 and ss-2r, some of ubich are believed to havenegaton -yie1d. ',rarheads . T'ranc e has a tactical nucrear force equipped with 32short r:rnge (about 120 kn, ) bar-listic missiles carled pruton. These a"e believedto have about 2o-kt. warhearls-