Posted on 11/30/2011 1:40:44 PM PST by posterchild
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal.
For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has called it something else: homework.
Led by their hard-charging professor, a former top Pentagon official, they have translated hundreds of documents, combed through satellite imagery, obtained restricted Chinese military documents and waded through hundreds of gigabytes of online data.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Whats even more scary is that Russia also possesses thousands of miles of these tunnels for its own nuclear arsenal.
China likely has about 4,000 nukes
Russia/CIS likely has about 12,000 nukes (nukes in other CIS countries would be controlled by Russia).
That's the best recommendation it could get.
But China is our fwiend and our best twading pawtner. Plus, they finance a bunch of ouw debt!
But of course there are critics:
But the strongest condemnation has come from nonproliferation experts who worry that the study could fuel arguments for maintaining nuclear weapons in an era when efforts are being made to reduce the world’s post-Cold War stockpiles.
These folks are probably eager to pull Georgetown's accreditation over this.
In case this activity somehow missed the attention of the Chinese authorities, the Washington Post wanted to be sure they knew what these students were up to.
Exactly:) We mustn’t notice things that will make us respond...
Our debt is rolling around in those underground tubes, along with the technology BJ Clinton allowed to leak to them.
I was thinking the same thing.
don’t worry. our stockpile of 1500 will be brought down to under 150 before 0bama leaves office
and the weapons grade uranium... it’ll find its way into reactors to be burned
we’re screwed and the vast majority of the US has no idea how bad. with our military getting more and more pc, it’d be a wonder if a massive majority of them also miss the obvious
Have you seen Red Dawn ?
Meanwhile, our enemies cheat and nobody cares.
the 1984 movie? yes. tho that was cubans with russian support
for an updated version, check out:
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456941/
australians invaded by the chinese (tho the red star is blackened)
Red Dawn was better produced ... but i wouldn’t knock TWTWB for that (there also might be a few in the works for 2012 and 2013 release)
There is still hope for America’s colleges yet.
“”””“But you ask people what they did in college, most just say I took this class, I was in this club. I can say I spent it reading Chinese nuclear strategy and Second Artillery manuals. For a nerd like me, that really means something.””””
At least not all college students are pinko commie scum that protest with OWS. These are the guys who will offer some sane advice when they grow up.
“the Washington Post wanted to be sure they knew”
Yup, showed three faces, outed two names, revealed some techniques.
Normally this sort of data mining would be classified, or at least FOUO.
Yep, partially financed by the billion$ in annual interest payments to China, partially financed by the billion$ in goods purchased from China each year.
That’s what I thought.
The only hiding tunnels we have here are the ones coming in from Mexico.
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