{"id":2170,"date":"2017-06-05T00:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2017-06-05T00:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:17:21","slug":"the-big-china-nuclear-threat-no-one-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/05\/the-big-china-nuclear-threat-no-one-is-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BIG CHINA NUCLEAR THREAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The National Interest<\/p>\n

By Zachary Keck<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most consistent aspects of China\u2019s military policy is likely to undergo a significant transformation. Since its first nuclear test in 1964, China has maintained a relatively small nuclear arsenal designed to hold adversaries\u2019 population centers at risk.<\/p>\n

Even as it has modernized its conventional forces to \u201cfight and win wars\u201d against first-class militaries like that of the United States, China\u2019s nuclear arsenal is estimated to contain<\/a> just 264 warheads, far smaller than the 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads Russia and America will each deploy under the New START Treaty, to say nothing of the nearly thirty thousand warheads they maintained during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

This smaller arsenal is consistent with China\u2019s different perspective<\/a> about the nature of deterrence, as well as its no-first-use nuclear doctrine. At the same time, a couple of technical developments are likely to propel China to undertake a significant nuclear buildup in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Image\u00a0 Sourced : New Yorker<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/the-big-china-nuclear-threat-no-one-talking-about-20983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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