China's Anti-Nuclear Capability

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I am new here and don't know whether this had been posted before or not. It seemed that in most forums around the world, everyone is focusing on the nuclear arsenal of China, but I am kind of interested in China's Anti-Nuclear capability, the training their soldiers have in terms of surviving a nuclear strike against them. And do they have a second strike capability?

to be honest i dont think there are too much sources out there that even prove that China has any nuclear weapons, although its clear they do have several nuclear power plant, and of course right now all eyes are on North Korea with their testing of their ICBM's.

QBZ957 said:

to be honest i dont think there are too much sources out there that even prove that China has any nuclear weapons, although its clear they do have several nuclear power plant, and of course right now all eyes are on North Korea with their testing of their ICBM's.

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huh? All along I thought China is a nuclear power in which that she do have nuclear weapon... such as the Dongfeng series of missiles. She was also one of the original five nuclear states to have nuclear weapons. Do I remember wrongly?

Not the entire DongFeng series is nuclear warheads though. And uh sry guess i assumed too quick cause i didnt find much with the searches i did, now that i typed in DongFeng there actually was. Sry and thxs man

"If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I think it's safe to say that China has nuclear weapons and is a nuclear power.

AssassinsMace said:

"If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I think it's safe to say that China has nuclear weapons and is a nuclear power.

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Yes. China detonated their first nuclear warhead in the 1960's. They have long had nuclear weapons. The DF-5 is their longest current ranged missile, and they have an array of short and medium ranged missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. This is all open source information and easily verified.

Sea Dog said:

Yes. China detonated their first nuclear warhead in the 1960's. They have long had nuclear weapons. The DF-5 is their longest current ranged missile, and they have an array of short and medium ranged missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. This is all open source information and easily verified.

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DF-5A is their longest range missile

Hi,

I am new here and don't know whether this had been posted before or not. It seemed that in most forums around the world, everyone is focusing on the nuclear arsenal of China, but I am kind of interested in China's Anti-Nuclear capability, the training their soldiers have in terms of surviving a nuclear strike against them. And do they have a second strike capability?

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If been to Chinese City's, most of them have underground bombbunkers or even small tunnels, it can help a little.... all the Heads in Beijing has their little secret tunnels...
TaiHei Mountain Range is assumed to hold some missiles...

to be honest i dont think there are too much sources out there that even prove that China has any nuclear weapons, although its clear they do have several nuclear power plant, and of course right now all eyes are on North Korea with their testing of their ICBM's.

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Quantitatively and qualitatively, China's nuclear forces cannot compare with those of the United States, which has some 10,000 nuclear warheads with more than half of them operationally deployed. China has about 400 warheads. The strongest leg of its nuclear triad is its land-based ballistic missiles, but only 20 of its approximately 85 ballistic missiles have sufficient range to reach the continental United States.

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Thanks guys, that's quite a bit of infor there.

I think I read it somewhere that US is well prepared for nuclear war, Manhatten Project, etc. Does China has something like that too? Tunnels seemed a bit flimsy though.

When nuclear war break out, I think that the entire place will be covered with radiation and stuffs like that, what do China had to contend these radiation? Is the PLA readied for this kind of warfare?

most countries doesn't equip their forces with NBC protection. while most of their platfrom are only design with NBC to be available via upgrade kit; only a few specialized units get NBC. russia most likely have the largest percentage of forces with NBC installed already (only the soviet seriously considered surviving a nuclear war as a priority).

i believe china hasn't focus much into NBC. the surface fleet almost completely lack any NBC options... bascially if you get nuke, the force is like wipe out anyway... so is secondary protection important? unless we are in the tactical nuke scenario.

i foresee greater need for chemical and biological protection than radioactive. we see US going into conventional mother of all bomb than nuke; so cheaper chemical weapons are more likely to meet in battle than nukes.

rhino123 said:

I think I read it somewhere that US is well prepared for nuclear war, Manhatten Project, etc. Does China has something like that too? Tunnels seemed a bit flimsy though.

When nuclear war break out, I think that the entire place will be covered with radiation and stuffs like that, what do China had to contend these radiation? Is the PLA readied for this kind of warfare?

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Most US cities now a days don't even have airraid drills, chances are if a nuclear warhead is heading toward the US, you'll probably hear it on CNN before the military can do anything...
Like in James Bond M said, "Unlike the American's we perfer not to get our bad news from CNN." :roll:
Manhatten Project? You do know that Manhatten Project was the project name when they were first developing the nuclear bombs against Japan..
The way I see it, only the official and top brass of America or even any other countries have a chance of surviving..
Whats the point of getting rid of the radiation when your city is destoryed? It's just a waste of money, use it for relief..

And do they have a second strike capability?

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FYI, even if China doesn't have ICBMs and her major cities are wiped out and can't strike back, they can just easily point a hundred IRBM or SRBM at Siberia or Western China and end the world as we know it...
I think it's pretty safe to say that even the most insane (little Kim) or trigger happy D ) nuclear powers are scared to use nukes.