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  • China 'hiding up to 3,000 nuclear warheads in secret tunnels'

    12/01/2011 2:21:24 PM PST · by Red Steel · 31 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 9:23AM GMT 01 Dec 2011
    An unconventional project by US university students has concluded that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than current estimates, drawing the attention of Pentagon analysts. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Georgetown University students under the instruction of a former Pentagon official have assembled the largest body of public knowledge yet about a vast network of secret tunnels dug by China's secretive Second Artillery Corps, responsible for nuclear warheads. The 363-page study has not yet been published, but has already sparked a congressional hearing and been circulated among top US defence officials, including the Air Force vice...
  • N. Korea may produce 14 to 18 nuke warheads by 2019 if talks fail

    02/16/2010 7:51:39 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 12 replies · 277+ views
    Yonhap News ^ | 2/16/2010 | Hwang Doo-hyong
    North Korea may be able to produce up to 14 to 18 nuclear warheads by 2019 if the multilateral talks for its denuclearization fail, a scholar said Tuesday. "If North Korea is able to refurbish its fuel fabrication plant, that production rate could continue indefinitely with its arsenal reaching 14-18 weapons by 2019," said Joel Wit, a visiting fellow at the U.S. Korea Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in a report. Wit was discussing the North's nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at its Yongbyon nuclear facilities being reactivated after it declared a boycott of the...