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by JumpCrisscross 596 days ago
> If you have a limited number of long range ICBMs

China has hundreds going on thousands of ICBMs. Nobody is creating redundancy from Boise to Albany and Sunnyvale to increase survivability in case of a nuclear exchange between America and China.
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redmajor12 596 days ago
FUD!.The total including SLBM is 442.

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/chinese-nuclear-weap...

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JumpCrisscross 596 days ago
> FUD!.The total including SLBM is 442

Sorry, I should have said hundreds going on a thousand. Glad we put that fab in Sunnyvale!

(442 is hundreds. Your own source says the "Pentagon also estimates that China’s arsenal will increase to about 1,000 warheads by 2030, many of which will probably be 'deployed at higher readiness levels' and most 'fielded on systems capable of ranging the [continental United States]'." By 2035 that could grow up to 1,500. These are MAD figures.)

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wbl 596 days ago
Ooh if we go first we'd barely get our hair mussed!
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dgfitz 596 days ago
> Nobody is creating redundancy from Boise to Albany and Sunnyvale to increase survivability in case of a nuclear exchange between America and China.

Uh, lol?

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