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| Georgetown students shed light on China's tunnel system for nuclear weapons | ||
| 2011-12-01 | ||
| Via Instapundit The Chinese have called it their "Underground Great Wall" -- a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country's increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has called it something else: homework.
The result of their effort? The largest body of public knowledge about thousands of miles of tunnels dug by the Second Artillery Corps, a secretive branch of the Chinese military in charge of protecting and deploying its ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads. The study is yet to be released, but already it has sparked a congressional hearing and been circulated among top officials in the Pentagon, including the Air Force vice chief of staff. Most of the attention has focused on the 363-page study's provocative conclusion -- that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than the well-established estimates of arms-control experts. | ||
| Posted by:Eohippus Phater7165 |
| #1 Telling quote from the article: But the strongest condemnation has come from nonproliferation experts who worry that the study could fuel arguments for maintaining nuclear weapons in an era when efforts are being made to reduce the worldÂ’s post-Cold War stockpiles. Not whether the report is accurate, but whether it interferes with their pre-conceived agenda. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-12-01 14:09 |