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Originally Posted by marketsmart
oh noes... the chinks are going to hurl dongs at us...
the US would nuke the shit out of those slopes if they ever struck one of our carriers..
of course, they would nuke us right back...
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The Red Chinese really have nothing of significance with which to "nuke us back".
ICBM Inventory:
"Chinese Designations Western Designations Range [km] IOC inventory
DF-3 [none] 10,000 cancelled --
DF-5 CSS-4 13,000 1981 20
DF-6 [none] 15,000 cancelled --
DF-22 DF-14 8,000 cancelled --
DF-31 (DF-31A) CSS-X-9 7,250 ? 2003 0
DF-41 CSS-X-10 11,270 2010 0
Nuke inventory:
There is considerable uncertainly in published estimates of the size of the Chinese nuclear weapons stockpile. In the late 1980s it was generally held that China was the world's third-largest nuclear power, possessing a small but credible nuclear deterrent force of 225 to 300 nuclear weapons. Other estimates of the country's production capacities suggested that by the end of 1970 China had fabricated around 200 nuclear weapons, a number which could have increased to 875 by 1980. With an average annual production of 75 nuclear weapons during the 1980s, some estimates suggest that by the mid-1990s the Chinese nuclear industry had produced around 2,000 nuclear weapons for ballistic missiles, bombers, artillery projectiles and landmines.
Source:
globalsecurity.org
Sally.