Scientists discover a massive field of nuclear silos in China, signaling a significant nuclear expansion in the country

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China is constructing a network that could house up to 110 nuclear silos in a desert in Xinjiang.

"The silo construction at Yumen and Hami constitutes the most significant expansion of the Chinese nuclear arsenal ever," the FAS researchers Matt Korda and Hans M.

Responding to Insider in an email, Kristensen, who is also the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the FAS, agreed that silos were vulnerable to attack because they were stationary but added that attacks could also be detected and a "solution" was to "build a missile that can react fast enough to get out of the silo before it is destroyed."

Asked whether silos were considered outdated, Kristensen said: "Today, some of the most modern missiles are actually deployed in silos, so it is by no means considered old." It is unlikely that even with its latest expansion, China will compete with Russia and the US. According to the

 

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