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looks like China intention is to significantly increase its nuclear warheads afterall
No need to "reduce international concerns". China should start ramping up nuclear warhead production. This is a volatile period and having such a small number of nuclear weapons is a national security issue."To reduce international concerns about the potential plutonium diversion issues, China needs to keep its plutonium recycling programs more transparent including timely reporting of its stockpile of civilian plutonium like they did before 2016," Hui Zhang, a senior research associate at Harvard University's Project on Managing the Atom, said in an email.
10000 please... dont be shy China... build them nukes like you build highways and high speed rail
looks like China intention is to significantly increase its nuclear warheads afterall
China doesn’t bother with small yield tactical nukes because it treats nukes as the last resort, not first response. Chinese nukes are overwhelmingly megaton yield city killers.How heavy is China nuclear warhead? China doesn't have nuclear-armed cruise missile like BGM-109 Tomahawk or AGM-86 ALCM meaning that China nuclear warhead have more fissile material and actually very heavy (need more rocket fuel to carry). China needs more nuclear test to miniature their nuclear warhead(physics package). Maybe can test in north korea to avoid worldwide sanction. For example W80 yield 150kt and weight about 130kg compared to china lightest warhead yield 200kt-300kt which is 500kg.
W80 warhead ~150kt max yield. Look at how small it is. I can't believe this thing is 7 times more powerful than Fat Man
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Nukes are genocidal weapons; they poison you down to the genetic level; we still don’t know the long term genetic effects of those Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors.China doesn’t bother with small yield tactical nukes because it treats nukes as the last resort, not first response. Chinese nukes are overwhelmingly megaton yield city killers.
If anyone is stupid enough to use kiloton tactical nukes against China, they will eat megaton yield strategic ones in response. ‘Sos, ‘dem be all we have!
Where did you get that info?Considering the exported F35 needs to get new activation code from US every 24 hours I think its safe bet those nukes are hardcoded never to hit USA
It should also revoke the no-first use policy and adopt use at will policy while keeping 2000 of its nukes always ready to launch just like Russia and the USA.10000 please... dont be shy China... build them nukes like you build highways and high speed rail
@BoraTas the reason for the UNDERSTANDING between Russia and China is that the Russia provide the muscle (nuclear weapon) while China provide the butter (economics) while both side built up their respective weaknesses. I think its a perfect complement , if the US use nuclear weapon on the Chinese the Russian will automatically respond that is the principle of MAD.It should also revoke the no-first use policy and adopt use at will policy while keeping 2000 of its nukes always ready to launch just like Russia and the USA.
China should not entrust something as important as strategic nuclear deterrence to any other nation... for its very existential survival is at stake.@BoraTas the reason for the UNDERSTANDING between Russia and China is that the Russia provide the muscle (nuclear weapon) while China provide the butter (economics) while both side built up their respective weaknesses. I think its a perfect complement , if the US use nuclear weapon on the Chinese the Russian will automatically respond that is the principle of MAD.