Excellent links. Having to buy this instead of build it, just shows how inept China is. Even with these purchases they are 50 years behind the US. If they tick off Russia again, the nukes and arms will come to a screeching halt.

10000/400 gives the 25 to 1 advantage. That's all things even. I'm sure the US would know within seconds if any Chinese nuke was launched, but probably not the other way around.

It seems to me that Russia is the biggest threat in the world... a bankrupt superpower selling knowledge and arms. Yikes.

>They have been researching nuclear weapons since 1953. Between Israel and Russia, they are well armed.
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>Its acquisitions from Russia alone would equip an air force and navy for a mid-size country - scores of supersonic Su-27 fighters, destroyers, submarines and anti-ship missiles.
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>Flush with cash from its economic boom, China spent more than $13 billion on Russian weapons in the decade ending in 2003, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, known as SIPRI, which tracks international arms sales.
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>But hey, Chinese purchases have saved Russian arms makers from bankruptcy, so if its good for the economy...
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>http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/facility/missile.htm
>http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/2/8/92308.shtml
>http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/nuke/index.html
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4108446.stm
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>>>Then where would the Harvard (and other university) students get their shirts and sweaters made?
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>>LOL!
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>>>And China wouldn't be able to get the US back, with just 1 or 2 warheads?
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>>The US has in excess of 10,000, China less than 400. Given this huge imbalance in numbers and technology, I doubt any could reach the US. Who knows if any of the Chinese weapons are even ICBM's. Unlikely, since they have just learned how to put a humans into orbit. They didn't figure this out themselves, this was done via purchaseing or reverse enginering Russia technology.
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_nuclear_weapons#endnote_China
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>>>Why didn't they sort out Korea this way - a lot of Chinese soldiers pouring over the top then.
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>>The US couldn't take the gloves off since it was the cold war and the Chinese had the support of the Soviets.