Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Zero Hedge — China Accelerates Next-Gen Nuclear Weapons Development To Compete With US, Russia


Keeping abreast of the arms race.
As we have been documenting over the last year and beyond, China is rapidly modernizing its military; unveiling a new stealth bomber, an array of guided-weapons, and deploying further from home. Their most recent focus has been on next generation nuclear weapons - as Beijing ramps up blast experiments for nukes comprised of smaller, smarter warheads designed to limit damage by targeting specific targets, according to the South China Morning Post….
China's development of next gen nukes will put them in direct competition with the United States and Russia, sparking concerns by experts over the prospect of a new cold war arms race that has the potential of boiling over into thermonuclear war.…
“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.”
Just a matter of when and who uses nukes first. But that is not necessarily the US, China or Russia. Could be Pakistan, India or Israel, for instance.
Zero Hedge
China Accelerates Next-Gen Nuclear Weapons Development To Compete With US, Russia
Tyler Durden

1 comment:

Konrad said...

Smaller, smarter tactical warheads that are mass-produced like potato chips?

What could go wrong?

Besides, just as war is no longer "war" (war is now an "intervention" or a "kinetic action") nukes are no longer nukes. Nukes are "enhanced tactical defense devices." So let's give them to police departments and security guards.

What could go wrong?

TOM HICKEY WRITES: “Just a matter of when and who uses nukes first. But that is not necessarily the US, China or Russia. Could be Pakistan, India or Israel, for instance.”

I’m surprised that Israel hasn’t nuked someone already. After all, “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

And if Israel did nuke someone, the world would bless Israel's crime, because of the magic myth of the “six million.”®