“It’s hard to imagine it’s anything else.”The silo construction is likely to fuel debate in Washington over the Pentagon’s plans to modernise the US nuclear arsenal. China has refused to join arms control talks, arguing that its nuclear arsenal is far smaller than those of the world’s two major nuclear powers. The report said that China intended to strengthen its “nuclear triad” of strategic weapons that would allow it to launch nuclear weapons from land, sea and air. Although the DF-41 is designed for mobile launchers, the Pentagon reported that China was aiming to base some of them in underground silos. The Yumen site’s design does not necessarily mean China intends to deploy another 100 missiles there.

Source: bd News24 July 02, 2021 17:03 UTC