How many nuclear warheads does China have? Because China has not released this data to the outside world, there have always been many first-class and even official speculations and analyses in the world, and even the official departments of some countries have speculated and analyzed, among which the most interested in this issue is the Pentagon.
Some time ago, the Pentagon believed that the number of nuclear warheads in China was at least more than 500, and at the same time he also analyzed that the number of nuclear warheads in China is expected to double before 2030, so is this true?
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The nuclear warhead is a kind of nuclear **, it is used in conjunction with the "ballistic missile", during the war, when the ballistic missile is launched, then the nuclear warhead located at the front end of the missile will carry out mass damage to the target.
Looking at the world, Russia and the United States are the countries with the most nuclear warheads in the world, not to mention that there are a total of nine countries in the world that have nuclear warheads, but the number of nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia has reached more than 95% of the global total. The remaining nuclear warheads in the hands of the remaining seven nuclear-armed countries are also a fraction of the nuclear warheads of the United States and Russia.
So how many nuclear warheads does our country have?
In 2011, according to the International Peace Research Institute, China had about 240 nuclear warheads, and in 2021, 10 years later, that number became 350, and then in 2023, when the Pentagon said that China had at least 500 nuclear warheads.
At the same time, the Pentagon also said that China is speeding up the deployment of nuclear warheads, believing that before 2030, the number of nuclear warheads in China will exceed 1,000
But in fact, the United States and Russia are the countries that should reduce nuclear warheads the most, because one of them has deployed more than 6,000 nuclear warheads, and the other has deployed more than 5,000 nuclear warheads, even if China can really reach 1,000 nuclear warheads before 2030, it is less than one-fifth of them. Therefore, it is nonsense to exaggerate the "China threat theory" in this way.
So does our country really have so many nuclear warheads? On the one hand, the international community has long been concerned about the development of China's nuclear forces, especially the development of China's strategic forces, and on the other hand, China has never announced the exact number of nuclear warheads.
Therefore, this also makes many foreign institutions, especially many national departments, curious, and want to obtain accurate data on the number of nuclear warheads held by China, so the data given internationally today, including the data given by the Pentagon in the United States, are just their guesses.
Then the number of Chinese nuclear warheads is really at 5More than one?
As we mentioned earlier, there are a total of 9 nuclear-armed countries in the world, in addition to the United States and Russia, China, the United Kingdom and France have the largest number of nuclear **, and it can be seen from here that in fact, to put it bluntly, the five permanent members of the United Nations are still "the strongest combination in the global village".
The next four nuclear-armed states, namely India, North Korea, Israel and Pakistan, have only more than 400 nuclear warheads combined, according to the data.
As one of the world's great powers, since 1964, China's first atomic bomb **, it has been 60 years, in this long period of time, China's conventional military strength, strategic military strength has been developed by leaps and bounds, and now China has ranked second in the world in terms of conventional military strength, and the gap with the United States is getting smaller and smaller.
In terms of strategic strength, although there is still a certain gap with the United States and Russia, it is also firmly in the third place, and it is also steadily catching up, and the gap is also narrowing, so in terms of nuclear arsenal, it is very likely that the number of nuclear warheads in China will be more than 500, as for whether it is about 500 or much more than 500, it is impossible to say.
However, judging from the development of China's military strength over the years, the number of nuclear warheads in China should be far greater than that of India, North Korea, Israel, and Pakistan combined.
Because the size of the nuclear ** is also one of the important indicators to measure China's national defense strength, and it also determines China's international status, after all, holding nuclear ** in the hand is a powerful deterrent for any country.
In addition to the United States, Russia is also curious about how many nuclear warheads there are in our country, and last year there was also a Russian analysis that the number of nuclear warheads in China should be more than 400, which is nearly 100 less than the analysis data of the United States, and at the same time, Russia believes that China will increase 60 to 100 nuclear warheads every year.
It can be seen from here that whether it is the United States or Russia, in fact, everyone believes that China will be able to have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030.
Of course, no matter how they guess, the answer given by our country is the same: "enough", as for how many are enough, it is impossible to tell you, as for whether the number of nuclear warheads in our country will continue to increase, it is also decided with the development of our national strength, because the greater our national defense needs, the demand for nuclear ** will naturally increase simultaneously.
Moreover, China's "enough" in terms of nuclear warheads is also defined according to its own needs and national standards, so on the whole, since China can answer "enough" with a smile, it must be enough, and there is also a possibility that the number of nuclear weapons in China's hands may be far beyond the data of the United States and the West, but China is unwilling to tell them.
So on what basis do the United States and the West judge the number of nuclear warheads in our country?
On the one hand, China had nuclear weapons as early as 60 years ago, so the United States and the West believe that after so many years of development, even if China has experienced a special period in the middle, but now with the continuous improvement of strength, the number of nuclear warheads in hand will inevitably increase.
On the other hand, it is measured according to China's intercontinental missiles, and the number of intercontinental missiles announced by China is 312, so even if a missile is equipped with only one nuclear warhead, the number of nuclear warheads in China will be far more than 300, and naturally the United States and the West will use this to analyze the number of nuclear warheads in China.
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