Category: ICBM

China’s ‘Breathtaking’ Pace in Military Modernization Poses Serious Threat to US, Admiral Says

Navy Admiral Charles Richard, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons, on Thursday gave a dire warning about China’s rapidly increasing military capability. “We are witnessing a strategic breakout by China. The explosive growth and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces can only be what I describe as…


China Could Soon Use Nuclear Weapons to ‘Coerce’ the US, Experts Warn

The Chinese regime could use its strengthening nuclear capabilities to coerce the United States in as soon as a few years’ time, experts say, following recent reports exposing Beijing’s secret efforts to expand its nuclear arsenal. China will have about 250 new silos, underground facilities for housing and launching intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), once it…


British University Researchers May Be ‘Inadvertently Arming China’: Think Tank

Top British universities may be unwittingly assisting China’s military forces in their development of weapons of mass destruction by allowing them access to cutting-edge research, a social policy think tank has said. In research published on Monday (pdf), Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, said that the “pervasive presence of Chinese military-linked…