Breitbart By JOHN HAYWARD
Chinese state media on Thursday denounced a new Pentagon report on China’s growing nuclear arsenal as “speculative,” without actually denying anything in the report.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) report on the “accelerating pace” of China’s nuclear weapons program was published on Wednesday.
The report said China is amassing nuclear warheads at a much faster pace than DoD anticipated in its 2020 analysis. Last year, the Pentagon believed China had about 200 warheads and planned to double its stockpile over the long term, but this year the Pentagon estimated China is on track to have “up to 700 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2027” and at least a thousand by 2030.
A thousand warheads would still be much smaller than the American and Russian nuclear inventories, which include anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 warheads according to various reports, but would still give China devastating nuclear strike capabilities…
