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A Growing Arsenal
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China's nuclear arsenal is growing much faster than expected.
The
finding comes from a concerned senior French defense official.
In Washington, the story is no different: in a letter to the defense committees of both houses of parliament, the Pentagon warned that China now has more intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers than states. -United.
He also estimates that China, which already has more than 400 nuclear warheads – Russia has nearly 6,000 and the United States more than 5,400 – could increase this number to 1,500 by 2035. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House of Representatives Defense Committee, reacted strongly:
“The alarm clock has sounded for the United States, […] the Chinese nuclear modernization program is moving faster than what most of between us believed possible.
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