China missile silos a sign of ‘unprecedented nuclear buildup,’ report says – By Thomas Maresca (UPI) / Nov 3 2021
Nov. 3 (UPI) — Construction activity at three suspected missile silo fields in north-central China offers the latest evidence of a rapidly expanding nuclear weapons program that has raised alarms in the Pentagon, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery.
A report published online Tuesday by the Federation of American Scientists detailed “significant progress” at sites located in the deserts of Xinjiang, where approximately 300 silos are believed to be under construction.
“For China, this is an unprecedented nuclear buildup,” the report’s authors, Matt Korda and Hans Kristensen, wrote. Their analysis was based on commercial images from Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies.
In addition to the more than 100 mobile launchers China is believed to possess, the silos could give Beijing the world’s most formidable long-range nuclear missile capability.
