How China’s expanding nuclear arsenal calls for India’s deterrence strategy rehaul
As per estimates, China now possesses roughly 500 nuclear warheads, and numbers and quality are growing faster than the other nuclear weapon powers The Pentagon’s 2023 report to Congress assessed that China now has approximately 500 nuclear warheads for delivery by land-based ballistic missiles, sea-based ballistic missiles, road-mobile systems, and bombers. Nuclear Warhead Stockpile The Pentagon’s 2023 report to Congress assessed that China now has approximately 500 nuclear warheads for delivery by land-based ballistic missiles, sea-based ballistic missiles, road-mobile systems, and bombers. They continue to create ambiguity by putting nuclear and conventional strike forces under the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, which controls both China’s nuclear and conventional arsenal of land-based ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles. China’s advanced non-nuclear weapons, including hypersonic, could also provide a strategic strike capability that may achieve effects similar to a first use of nuclear weapons.
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