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China spotted building second new nuclear missile base after silo complex uncovered in latest sign of 'significant arsenal expansion'
2021-07-29
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • China is constructing another new nuclear missile base located in northern Xinjiang province, researchers say

  • 14 missile silos are under construction at 300 square-mile site which could eventually include up to 110 silos

  • Comes just a week after a similar site was uncovered housing 120 new silos, with old sites being expanded

  • Analysts now believe that China is in the midst of the biggest expansion of its nuclear arsenal on record
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Posted by:Skidmark

#3  ...A good friend - lost him at Christmas to the Wu Flu - was a strategic analyst by trade. Something he always liked to point out is that once you get a sufficiently large and long-ranged nuclear arsenal, the result tends to be strategic paralysis at that level. Sure, you got a metric shiat-ton of bombs....but so does the other guy.

Up till now, the Chinese weren't a Cold-War-Era USSR level threat to us - they only had about 275 nuclear weapons total, and only a very small SLBM force - apparently, they're even more nervous about missile subs than the Russians were, and that's saying something. Yeah, they could threaten Japan, the ROK, Taiwan, or Russia, but they only had about 70 ICBMs, some of which had to be reserved for use against the Russians. They'll be able to take us on now...and they're going to discover how tough it really is.

Wasn't it the ancient Chinese who coined the saying, "Be careful what you wish for?"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-07-29 14:50  

#2  No significant sea based delivery. We already have enough existing infrastructure and leadership targets as it is. All else is overkill. Given what can be done with bio-weapons (to include the ability to get away with using them), its redundant.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-07-29 11:08  

#1  Communist China is not an adherent to any nuclear weapons limitation treaties such as New START. And they will soon have an all-new ground-based missile force (in addition to their current forces) able to deliver, at the low end, around 875 warheads — nearly double our capability.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836   2021-07-29 10:38  

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