{"id":3115,"date":"2018-03-10T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2018-03-10T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T18:59:14","slug":"is-america-preparing-for-a-nuclear-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/10\/is-america-preparing-for-a-nuclear-war-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"IS AMERICA PREPARING FOR A NUCLEAR WAR WITH CHINA ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2723\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41.png 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41-560x303.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41-260x141.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/DF41-160x87.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: National Interest<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s leader Vladimir Putin unveiled several new nuclear weapons last week in a replay of the Cold War. China, meanwhile, is continuing a similar buildup of high-technology strategic nuclear forces that remains largely hidden from view.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese secrecy about its nuclear forces and their use was a major theme of the Pentagon\u2019s recently completed Nuclear Posture Review that outlined a new \u201ctailored deterrence\u201d policy for China.<\/p>\n<p>The new plan is aimed at persuading Chinese leaders to avoid military miscalculations \u2013 like provocative actions in the South China Sea, or hostile activities related to Taiwan or Japan \u2013 that could quickly escalate into a nuclear exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/america-preparing-nuclear-war-china-24753<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: National Interest Russia\u2019s leader Vladimir Putin unveiled several new nuclear weapons last week in a replay of the Cold War. China, meanwhile, is continuing a similar buildup of high-technology strategic nuclear forces that remains largely hidden from view. Chinese secrecy about its nuclear forces and their use was a major theme of the Pentagon\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/10\/is-america-preparing-for-a-nuclear-war-with-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IS AMERICA PREPARING FOR A NUCLEAR WAR WITH CHINA ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[80,926,1226,152],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-china","tag-japan","tag-taiwan","tag-usa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}