CITIZEN ALERT v1.163CHINA NUKES

You'd have to go all the way back to CITIZEN ALERT v1.8 to find where I was talking about the exaggerated nuclear threat of China. Well, it seems now a report from the Federation of American Scientists is confirming the same thing.

The U.S. military, intelligence agencies, and conservative think tanks and news organizations are exaggerating China’s nuclear weapons capability to justify developing a new generation of nuclear and conventional weapons, according to a report issued today by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Now, in fairness I believe some of the upgrading of our nuclear arsenal is intended to stop any misuse of the weapons if they were to fall into the wrong hands, but as far as the arms race with China is concerned the report is backing up an article I read awhile back in Foreign Affairs that our government "[has] been embellishing China’s submarine and long-range missile capabilities".

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