{"id":197018,"date":"2008-03-07T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/chinese-nuclear-arsenal-increased-by-a-third-since-2006-pentagon-report-indicates-fas-strategic-security-blog\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T22:47:00","slug":"chinese-nuclear-arsenal-increased-by-a-third-since-2006-pentagon-report-indicates-fas-strategic-security-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/chinese-nuclear-arsenal-increased-by-a-third-since-2006-pentagon-report-indicates-fas-strategic-security-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Nuclear Arsenal Increased by a Third Since 2006, Pentagon Report Indicates \u00bb FAS Strategic Security Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2006, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/ssp\/2008\/03\/chinese_nuclear_arsenal_increa.php\">Chinese nuclear arsenal has increased by 1\/3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When one considers the strategic needs of China, they would generally be geared towards protecting supply lanes for oil and other strategic materials, but we see a buildup here that is largely ICBMs and nuclear cruise missiles, which are useless in this scenario:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/ssp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/china_tn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the only realistic use for these weapons is to deter the US from using <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">their<\/span> weapons as a threat to forestall specific Chinese actions **cough** Taiwan **cough**.<\/p>\n<p>Were this simply a modernization, I don&#8217;t think that you would see an increase in warheads, because the older liquid fueled missiles would be decommissioned, and they have not been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2006, the Chinese nuclear arsenal has increased by 1\/3. When one considers the strategic needs of China, they would generally be geared towards protecting supply lanes for oil and other strategic materials, but we see a buildup here that is largely ICBMs and nuclear cruise missiles, which are useless in this scenario: In fact, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1006,1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}