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China will have 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035 – What Pentagon report says

Pentagon Report of USA states that if the increase in its nuclear arsenal continues China at today’s rate, then it will reach 1,500 nuclear warheads until 2035.

“The Ministry of Defense estimates that (China’s) stockpile of nuclear warheads has exceeded 400. If the stockpile continues to grow at this rate, China will most likely have about 1,500 warheads” by 2035, the report said.

The Chinese nuclear arsenal, however, remains much smaller than that of the US and Russia, two countries that possess many thousands of nuclear warheads.

Beijing, which is also working to modernize ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, conducted 135 tests in 2021, “more than the rest of the world.” The Air Force is also making significant progress “quickly approaching (the level of) Western air forces.”

The report reiterates US concerns about Beijing’s increasing pressure on Taiwan. An American official commented, however, that Washington does not consider that any Chinese invasion of the island is “imminent”.

Source: News Beast

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