In the US, estimated the number of nuclear warheads, standing on PLA. As the director of the program of nuclear information to the Federation of American Scientists, Hans Christensen, of the nuclear arsenal of China includes, least, about 280 warheads.
As the newspaper writes Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, China continues to implement the program of modernization of nuclear weapons, It started back in the 80s 20 century. On army weapons come new varieties of ballistic missiles of medium and intermediate-range. Work on the modernization of mobile launchers for ICBMs, IDB developed airborne. All in all, for the delivery of their 280 nuclear warheads, China can use about 130 ballistic missiles, ground-based, 48 – sea and 20 air. The bulk of the existing armed PLA nuclear warhead has a capacity of 200-300 kilotonn. Just as the United States is very concerned about the issue of ground equipment of Chinese ICBMs heads with multiple warheads, able to overcome the US missile defense system.
Do not forget to count the United States and the marine component of China's nuclear arsenal. According to the analysis of authors, PRC has its four submarines with 12 launchers on each. missile Range, placed on submarines exceeds 7 thousands of kilometers, allowing China, It is near its coast, hit targets in Alaska, Russia and India, and advancing to the east – cover the whole territory of the United States.
It should be recalled, that according to official figures at the beginning of this year,, The United States has 652 operationally deployed nuclear weapons and carriers 1350 warheads on them. In Russia – 527 carriers and 1444 warheads.
