Sino-Soviet Border War

[Sharwood]

Does anyone know much about the Sino-Soviet undeclared border war in the sixties and seventies? I've read wiki and a few other articles about it, but there doesn't seem to be much information. How close did this come to a full-scale war? Did the US or other powers have any involvement prior to Nixon's reopening of relations with China? What were the odds of either nation escalating this to a nuclear conflict? What were the dispositions like on both sides? If anyone has any information on this, I'd be interested to hear it.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Nobody knows much about it (at least in the west) It was a secret conflict in a very remote part of the world and both sides covered it up and lied about their version of events. There were no neutral witnesses present at all so it is difficult to say exactly what happened and I've heard some weird rumors such as the Soviets testing energy type weapons against the Chinese.

BTW There was a thread on another forum (Military Photos I believe) where a Russian posted a crap load of pictures supposedly from the conflict. Worth a look at least.

 

[Sharwood]

Interesting, I might have a look at that after dinner. And that's the problem I'm running into, no objective analysis.

I've heard of Russians testing energy weapons, but in Afghanistan, not China. I do know for a fact that the Nazis were working on energy weapons, but they didn't get very far, and I doubt the Russians were able to make any productive ones either.