Experts warn of an increase in the risk of conflict after word surfaced that China was ramping up a nuclear arms race with the United States and Russia. According to Chinese state media, a number of their recent nuclear arms tests have “outpaced” the US.
Between September 2014 and last December, China carried out around 200 laboratory experiments to simulate the extreme physics of a nuclear blast, the China Academy of Engineering Physics reported in a document released by the government earlier this year and reviewed by the South China Morning Post this month.
The US only carried out only 50 simulated tests between 2012 and 2017, which comes out to about 10 a year according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. These types of tests are typically carried out using high-powered gas guns which fire projectiles at weapons-grade materials in laboratories. Over the past three years, Chinese nuclear scientists have performed more such tests than their American counterparts have in 15 years.
On the other hand, China’s live tests were outpaced by the US. The US has detonated more than 1,000 nuclear warheads since 1945 when a nuclear bomb was set off for the first time as part of the Manhattan Project. In contrast, China has carried out only 45 live tests starting from 1964. “It is possible we are in a hurry to catch up,” according to Professor Wang Chuanbin, from the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing at the Wuhan University of Technology.
Experts are warning that as China continues to increase their nuclear arms race pace, the threat of conflict rises substantially. As China joins the US and Russia in pursuing more targeted nuclear weapons as a deterrent against potential threats, the looming arms race would, in fact, serve the opposite purpose by increasing the risk of a nuclear conflict.
Pentagon officials have said the US wants its enemies to believe it might actually use its new-generation weapons, such as smaller, smarter tactical warheads designed to limit damages by destroying only specific targets. But with these relatively safer and less destructive weapons in hand, governments may end up losing the inhibition to use them. “The use of small warheads will lead to the use of bigger ones,” Beijing-based naval expert Li Jie told the Post. “If other countries use nuclear weapons on us, we have to retaliate. This is probably why there is research to develop new weapons,” Li said. Basically, even though China says they don’t intend to ever use these weapons of mass destruction, it is still highly necessary that they develop them anyway.
I am a resistor…to a point.
The threat of nuclear war concerns me less than what is happening right now within our Country. Migration is really invasion. No bombs necessary. We’ve already been defeated. Our only hope is to rid ourselves of the enemy within.
globalization is a criminal conspiracy for the overthrough of civilization and the reconstitution of society as slave and master
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Bottom Line: (((They))) are in a ALL OUT WAR Ritht Now, Against AMERICA and our People/ freedoms etc.
America has been on a continuous slide downward, of our Freedoms, Stability and World Peace, etc, ever since we have been invaded and hijacked by the real(((TROJAN HORSE))) Yeah (((Them))) The biggest evidentiary threat to America right now. Every where you look, destruction of our culture, religion, from NFL Football Owners, basketball, banks, courts, Fed Reserve, MS Propaganda Media, Hollywood, foreign policy, you name it etc. The USA is saturated with these (((Domestic Terrorists))).
Hello Wake up America. The Frog has come to a Boil. Only thing left for them to take from us is our Guns. And that’s NOT happening on my watch. So prepare for domestic war, with domestic enemies already here. Not worried about Nuke wars. I’m more fearful of internal False Flags like another 9-11. If That type of event happens again, its all out war here in the USA. Kill em’ all, and let the buzzards sort em out, and spit em out.
TSB, well said. That’s exactly what it’s coming to. Let them bring it. I don’t give a shit anymore. I’m tired of all the BS just like everyone else here.
So mini-nukes are suppose to make citizens feel less threatened. Iran must have them to have dustified the twin towers, smh. The exchange is letting Israel have undeclared nukes while letting the muslims flood Europe. This US administration heavily supports nuclear energy and fossil fuels that pollute the world environment while trashing clean energy, mostly solar power and other less polluting energy sources. Government is ready to bailout dangerous entrenched weapons of mass destruction while present life is bombarded daily currently with heavy rad fallout that is cumulatively stored in the human body building to an extinction level event.
Where are those who have said here that “nuclear weapons do not exist?” “Educate yourself.”
Say something with links and proof. I’d like to believe you.
But I don’t!
In the meantime the President is meeting with Kanye West, who has no background in politics or leading and running a country. And now the President is also meeting with, of all people, white trash reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
This comes after months of Kim K and his son-in-law Jared, discussing Prison Reform. They are going to present the President with the outcome of their multiple discussions. VF isn’t the only rag to carry this.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/keeping-up-with-the-kushners-kim-kardashian-white-house-visit-prison-reform?mbid=social_twitter
https://www.eonline.com/news/940053/kim-kardashian-arrives-to-white-house-to-discuss-prison-reform-with-president-trump
No one wins a nuclear war. NO ONE!!!
Sgt.