Category: chinese nuclear weapons

China Could ‘Rapidly Expand’ Its Nuclear Warhead Stockpile, UK Peers Are Told

Nuclear weapons are “becoming more important” than they have been since the height of the Cold War, the House of Lords’ International Relations and Defence Committee has been told. Andrew Futter, a professor of international politics at the University of Leicester, told peers on May 17: “China’s stockpile is probably around 300 or 400, that’s…


Red China’s Three-Pronged NBC Weapons Attack

Commentary Before there were “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD), there were nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) weapons. NBC warfare has been a Cold War euphemism for decades, but disarmament advocates prefer WMD because the phrase is more frightening and easier understood by the average person. The militaries in NATO and the United States have written voluminous doctrines, tactics,…


Red China’s Three-Pronged Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Weapons Attack

Commentary Before there were “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD), there were nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) weapons. NBC warfare has been a Cold War euphemism for decades, but disarmament advocates prefer WMD because the phrase is more frightening and easier understood by the average person. The militaries in NATO and the United States have written voluminous doctrines, tactics,…