China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread
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Yeah more guns than bullets never made sense to me either even if a few of them are trainers
@quantumlight bro both side are threatened the UNDERSTANDING is to support each other. There is no shamed if China with limited nuclear arsenal seek Russian nuclear umbrella, just as UK and France did with the US. And with history as guide so to of China with the US during the later days of the cold war.
You don't outsource something as existential as the nukes.
US continues to dump radioactive nuclear waste on civilians, especially those in the middle east through use of depleted uranium munitions. Just take a look at the horrific birth defects caused by depleted uranium munitions on Iraqis.
Not only just computer simulations. All the major nuclear weapons states still conduct Subcritical tests or 'Cold' tests. These tests may use fissile materials, but there would be no forming of critical mass that could result in nuclear explosions. These tests are used in conjunction with computer simulations. As we all know simulation parameters still needs to be updated from time to time. Subcritical tests are all legal under the CTBT. The most recent US example is the Nightshade A on November 2020 at the Nevada Test Site. A video example of a 'Cold' test is the Pollux test conducted in 2012 by the US:
Suffice to say that China, with its nuclear weapons experience, technical capability, and budget is more than able to carry out such tests. The real question is not be about "if" China is doing these tests, but "how many"? So, I find it hard to believe that China would need to resort to traditional 'Hot' nuclear tests again to update its warhead designs.
It is very fortunate that China had managed to detonate full scale multimegaton-range H-bombs before the CTBT came into effect. That means that China's fusion weapons designs have been verified in the real-life nuclear tests. So all collected data and knowledge pertaining to fusion designs can be inserted into a database for simulations for future weapons designing. Other small nuclear weapons states who have yet to detonate full scale H-bombs like India, Pakistan, and North Korea would certainly covet such data. The gap between fission and real, full scale fusion weapons designs is notoriously difficult to cross. Despite what India likes to claim, boosted fission weapons that involves only a little fusion doesn't count as full scale fusion weapons. Israel may be different, as I suspect that the US would share nuclear weapons designs with them.
Lets not forget the Pacific Islanders at Bikini Atoll whom the US conveniently ignores today. Back in the 50s and 60s these poor folks were resettled within dangerously radioactive fallout zones and studied. Just watch John Pilger's "Coming War On China" to see the sheer cruelty these people had to endure. They were still referred to as 'savages' in old US propaganda films. Some individuals were given Christian names to make them sound more 'civilized'. They were showed smiling to the cameras, unaware of the horrors of radiation sickness, cancers, and birth defects that awaits them. It is a truly remarkable level of cruelty perpetrated by a country who prides itself on 'human rights'.
As far as I know there is no such treaty between Russia and China. China should not leave such an existential topic to another country anyway.
Can't make useful warhead from civilian plutonium.
Require too big critical mass .
Doesn't make sense to use multi megaton warheads. A single , 10 megaton warhead has less destructive power than 10 pieces of 500 kiloton bombs. And the later weight less.
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