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Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago

China has sharply expanded nuclear arsenal, US says

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Interesting Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago

Beijing now possesses some 500 operational nuclear warheads, a new Pentagon report says.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/exXWL
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231020013821/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67163903

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I just did a quick check. Both western and non-western sources agree that Russia’s arsenal is bigger.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/12/china-other-states-fortify-nuclear-weapons-arsenals-report

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264435/number-of-nuclear-warheads-worldwide/
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  I did not expect that. I honestly thought the US had by far the biggest arsenal.
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    The US arsenal certainly was bigger until quite recently I think.

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