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..as he has in the past by blowing up negotiated deals in place, is threatening national security.
abcnews.com
China is going in another direction.
One such valley is known as Zitong, in Sichuan Province, where engineers have been building new bunkers and ramparts. A new complex bristles with pipes, suggesting the facility handles highly hazardous materials.
Another valley is home to a double-fenced facility known as Pingtong, where experts believe China is making plutonium-packed cores of nuclear warheads. The main structure, dominated by a 360-foot-high ventilation stack, has been refurbished in recent years with new vents and heat dispersers. More construction is underway next to it.
Above the Pingtong facility entrance, a hallmark exhortation of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, appears in characters so large they are visible from space: “Stay true to the founding cause and always remember our mission.”
These are among several secretive nuclear-related sites in Sichuan Province that have expanded and undergone upgrades in recent years.
China’s buildup complicates efforts to revive global arms controls after the expiration of the final remaining nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia. Washington argues that any successor agreements must also bind China, but Beijing has shown no interest.
www.nytimes.com
As is the case with US citizens protesting his militaristic style of immigration enforcement it appears Don thinks he can intimidate our enemies in to a negotiation over nuclear proliferation.
Resuming nuclear testing is a dangerous gamble
In late October, President Trump declared on social media that he had ordered the Pentagon “to start testing our nuclear weapons,” thereby ending the voluntary moratorium imposed by the Bush Sr. administration in 1992. The president portrayed his decision as a response to “other countries’ testing programs” and singled out Russia and China, which he later claimed had conducted small-scale underground detonations covertly.
One month later, and the administration has yet to take concrete steps forward. However, the resumption of America’s nuclear testing could have dangerous repercussions for the U.S. and the world.
Trump’s statement sounded like an improvisation. He surprised his aides. He erroneously claimed that the U.S. (not Russia) had the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. He mistakenly suggested that the Department of War (not the Department of Energy) handled nuclear testing. Finally, his Secretary of Energy quickly contradicted him.
As he seemed to suggest, several reports have accused Moscow and Beijing of conducting small “supercritical nuclear tests” to improve their warheads, exploiting long-standing ambiguities about what constitutes a test. But those allegations are difficult to verify. Regardless, the data such tests can provide is limited and pertains to nuclear safety rather than weapons enhancement.
www.defensepriorities.org
Should we trust this dishonest, corrupt, incompetent regime to do anything right after the MN debacle? I think not.
US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expires as Trump looks to include China
US-Russia nuclear arms treaty expires as Trump looks to include China
As the 2010 treaty between the U.S. and Russia limiting nuclear arms expired Thursday, President Donald Trump has said any new one should include China
abcnews.com
China is going in another direction.
Deep in China’s Mountains, a Nuclear Revival Takes Shape
In the lush, misty valleys of southwest China, satellite imagery reveals the country’s accelerating nuclear buildup, a force designed for a new age of superpower rivalry.One such valley is known as Zitong, in Sichuan Province, where engineers have been building new bunkers and ramparts. A new complex bristles with pipes, suggesting the facility handles highly hazardous materials.
Another valley is home to a double-fenced facility known as Pingtong, where experts believe China is making plutonium-packed cores of nuclear warheads. The main structure, dominated by a 360-foot-high ventilation stack, has been refurbished in recent years with new vents and heat dispersers. More construction is underway next to it.
Above the Pingtong facility entrance, a hallmark exhortation of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, appears in characters so large they are visible from space: “Stay true to the founding cause and always remember our mission.”
These are among several secretive nuclear-related sites in Sichuan Province that have expanded and undergone upgrades in recent years.
China’s buildup complicates efforts to revive global arms controls after the expiration of the final remaining nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia. Washington argues that any successor agreements must also bind China, but Beijing has shown no interest.
Deep in China’s Mountains, a Nuclear Revival Takes Shape
Satellite imagery of secretive nuclear facilities reveals Beijing’s efforts to expand its arsenal, just as the last global guardrails on nuclear weapons vanish.
As is the case with US citizens protesting his militaristic style of immigration enforcement it appears Don thinks he can intimidate our enemies in to a negotiation over nuclear proliferation.
Resuming nuclear testing is a dangerous gamble
In late October, President Trump declared on social media that he had ordered the Pentagon “to start testing our nuclear weapons,” thereby ending the voluntary moratorium imposed by the Bush Sr. administration in 1992. The president portrayed his decision as a response to “other countries’ testing programs” and singled out Russia and China, which he later claimed had conducted small-scale underground detonations covertly.
One month later, and the administration has yet to take concrete steps forward. However, the resumption of America’s nuclear testing could have dangerous repercussions for the U.S. and the world.
Trump’s statement sounded like an improvisation. He surprised his aides. He erroneously claimed that the U.S. (not Russia) had the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. He mistakenly suggested that the Department of War (not the Department of Energy) handled nuclear testing. Finally, his Secretary of Energy quickly contradicted him.
As he seemed to suggest, several reports have accused Moscow and Beijing of conducting small “supercritical nuclear tests” to improve their warheads, exploiting long-standing ambiguities about what constitutes a test. But those allegations are difficult to verify. Regardless, the data such tests can provide is limited and pertains to nuclear safety rather than weapons enhancement.
Resuming nuclear testing is a dangerous gamble - Defense Priorities
In late October, President Trump declared on social media that he had ordered the Pentagon “to start testing our nuclear weapons,” thereby […]
www.defensepriorities.org
Should we trust this dishonest, corrupt, incompetent regime to do anything right after the MN debacle? I think not.
