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Friday, December 11, 2020

Nuclear notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2020 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nuclear notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2020 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: We estimate that China has a produced a stockpile of approximately 350 nuclear warheads, of which roughly 272 are for delivery by more than 240 operational land-based ballistic missiles, 48 sea-based ballistic missiles, and 20 nuclear gravity bombs assigned to bombers. The remaining 78 warheads are intended to arm additional land- and sea-based missiles that are in the process of being fielded.

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