Correspondent in Asia
Excavation work visible on satellite images of the desert vastnesses of northwestern China has alerted the Pentagon.
Admiral Charles Richard, at the head of the American strategic forces, sounded the alarm in the face of a
“breathtaking strategic breakthrough”.
● To what extent is China strengthening its nuclear arsenal?
Beijing is currently building more than 250 new silos that can serve as a launch base for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), including in Gansu and Xinjiang.
A tenfold increase in the number of silos used so far by the strategic forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which would triple its arsenal by 2030 to reach 1,000 nuclear warheads, against 350 today, according to a recent Pentagon report.
Beijing has a nice game to point out that its arsenal is still very far from those of the United States, strong of 5500 nuclear warheads, or of Russia (6500), even if it exceeded…
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