China’s nuclear ambitions…what does it mean for us?
Ever since the Cold War ended, the majority of talk from the five original nuclear weapon states – the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France – has been focused on words such as “reduction,” “control” and “limitation.”
So when China suddenly starts talking about expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities, people sit up and take notice. According to a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, China is on the cusp of deploying submarine-launched nuclear weapons, adding to an arsenal that already includes land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and air-dropped nuclear bombs. In addition, the commission reports that China is “the most threatening” power in cyberspace and presents the largest challenge to U.S. supply chain integrity.
Take a look at this Reuters report titled, “China Submarines to Soon Carry Nukes, Draft U.S. Report Says.”
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/47606/china-submarines-to-soon-carry-nukes-draft-us-report-says
During the recent presidential campaign, we frequently heard Governor Romney say that China needed to be held accountable for its actions, but we never heard President Obama say anything of that nature. Is the U.S. going to revisit base closings as a result of this report? Are we going to think twice about downsizing our Navy as China steps up its naval capabilities?
The report suggested that the U.S. State Department integrate China into nuclear arms reduction, limitation and control discussions and agreements, and it recommended treating with caution any proposal to unilaterally reduce operational U.S nuclear forces without clearer information being made available to the public about China’s nuclear stockpile and posture. Let’s hope the right people are listening!
What do you think the U.S. response should be to China expanding its nuclear capabilities while other nuclear nations are in discussions to limit or reduce? Can China really be held “accountable” by the U.S. or anyone else? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
If this Nation does not go back to GOD we will fall… So Listen to Frank and get prepared.
Isrealhell has between 200 and 450 nuclear warheads in its possession mounted as MRVs on missiles capable of striking any target in Europe and the U.S. They have over the past 50 years refused to comply with the non proliferation treaty. They have only once allowed IAEA inspectors inside the Dimona plant. They also have several German made Dolphin submarines each carrying nuclear tipped missiles.
How ofter are one of these subs parked off our coast?
Isrealhell has threatened the planet with the Samson option if they feel their back is against the wall and if you don’t know what the Samson option is, you’d better look it up.
Since WWII there have been over 50 nuclear detonations used including those used in Fallujia, Baghdad and in Malaysia and the one used to create the massive tidal wave that created the Fukishima event and to destroy the Twin Towers in N.Y.
Nuclear weapons are no longer the size of FatMan and Little boy. They can be as small as a basketball or even a can of soda pop with dialable output.
Besides with Washington’s over aggressive posturing around the globe many nations view America as a threat . They cannot be blamed for their reaction to Washington’s lust for hegemony.
As long as Washington continues its aggression across the globe, as long as it continues to provide support and arms to terrorist groups such as DAESH/ ISIL. al Nusra, as long as it continues to create bloody civil wars in such countries as the Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere, as long as it continues to build more military bases and outposts that create animosity towards America, as long as it continues overthrow legally and democratically elected governments, as long as Washington continues interfere with the sovereignty of other nations, America will continue to become the most despised and feared nation on the planet.
The defense budget, at over 656 billion is doing nothing but enriching the pockets of defense contractors all the while they create planes that can’t fly (F-35) Littoral ships that breakdown, have weak hulls that cannot withstand ocean eaves, missiles that under perform and other defense systems that prove to be so costly, so useless and yet the American people are forced to pay for these boondoggles simply because military spending has for all practical purposes become a welfare program.
Not only that the entire procurement process is fraught with fraud, corruption, cronyism and political influence.
We do not need 1000 military bases across the globe. We do not have any business what so ever interfering in the sovereign affairs of other nations. We do not have any business creating civil wars and terrorist groups that murder and maim innocent people.
America has no business what so ever doing these things.
The military has been charged with defending the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet, where are they when the Patriot Act was passed? Where are they when the NDAA was passed? Where are they when Washington continues to erode or freedom, liberty and prosperity in the name of national security.
Instead we have people like Betrayus who should have been court martial and sent to prison, who now advise terrorist groups in the middle east. We have a military that supplies arms and aid to terrorist groups in the middle east. Boko Harum and who knows where else.
America is now going forward into its own self destruction. By the time Obama leaves office America will be 20 trillion in debt and more. It’s prestige shattered and no longer a beacon of liberty. Its prosperity will be reduced to only the 1% while the middle class becomes history. Our rights, freedom and liberty will be reduced to a few privileges the government can strip from us at any time.
The American empire will fall, not because other nations caused it to but because it committed suicide.
It committed suicide when the people learned they can vote themselves largesse (government contracts, welfare) it died when the people allowed themselves to dumbed down, disinformed and ignorant of the truth.
The only enemy America has is itself.
It’s the people who own our politicians, including the president, and they continue to provoke wars to make themselves rich…it’s always been that way.
When I was a kid during the second world war, I asked my mom…”how did we get out of the Great Depression?”.
She said, “we went to war and it put everyone back to work”!
George, Absolutely. It is the zionist neo-cons such as Bill Kristol, Bill Kagan and the rest of the unholy dreadful few that have control over the military, not just U.S. foreign policy.
America,s military is supposed to be about defending our shores and the Constitution. Neither of which it is doing.
I’M THINKING THAT AMERICA IS TOO BIG OF A CONSUMER OF CHINA’S CHEAP PRODUCTS THAT THEY WOULD NOT WANT TO BONB US. THAT WOULD CT OFF OUR TRADE AGREEMENTS, BUT IF WE HAD AN AGREEMENT WITH CHINA TO BRING SECURITY TO OUR TERRITORY BY PROTECTING AMERICA FROM OTHER WARING COUNTRY’S, SO BE IT. REASON, OUR ADMINISTRATION IS DOWNSIXING OUR MILITARY TO THE POINT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM SAY RUSSIA OR IRAN BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO BE BUSY PROTECTING OURSELVES INTERNALLY. RAMADAAN.
I suggest we speak softly, and carry a Big Stick.
A lot of the commentary is true, but if we were China, why would we bother going to war? It is a risky business, as they know better than we seem to. If China just continues on their path, they will eventually be able to just BUY the US, assuming that they really want places like Detroit.
The US has decreased its nuclear stockpile and ended its ability to manufacture tritium gas to inject in nuclear warheads to increase yield. We have gone from a 600+ ship navy to a projected 235 ships. We are cutting the number of Marines in half. Yesterday we fired about HALF of our annual allotment of 100 Tomahawk missiles against ISIS. The US under Pres. Bush along with France sank a North Korean freighter and detained another carrying nuclear material for Iran’s weapon program, but under this President whose #1 advisor has parents from Iran has done nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
China is like the Congressional Republicans, why do anything while your enemy is destroying themselves. We are destroying our economy, our military, and our society through debt, regulations, cutbacks, open borders, diversity, and corruption. China can bide their time since the trade imbalance is financing their military, our politicians have given them our patents, our universities and companies have given away our technology. America has been sold to China. US companies are being sold to foreigners at record rates along with our land. With half of our population depending on handouts from the government, our education system corrupted into socialist indoctrination centers, our fate is all but sealed. Those that have money, brains, and unique abilities will leave to places that offer greater opportunity. Why stay and be an economic slave to a socialist society?
What made the US great –
Education – we were among the top in the world and we attracted the best and brightest from other countries who would stay, but not anymore.
Economy – we had one of the lowest tax rates and fostered new ideas and businesses with lots of support and little regulation, but not anymore
Military = we had the most advanced weapons technology, the best trained force, forward projection able to reach anywhere in the world with massive force within a few days from hundreds of bases world-wide, not anymore. Even little North Korea alone has more men in uniform. China has an ever growing number of ships and ballistic missiles and can block key shipping lanes and has control of the Panama Canal. The US will not have the ability to support Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines from an aggressive China.
The US is more threatened today than at any time in our brief history. We have spent $230 Trillion dollars since the 1960s to combat poverty and have turned the country into a nation of “victims” who feel entitled to hand-outs. Our most despised people are our politicians/lobbyists/lawyers. No wonder some of the original 13 colonies banned lawyers. Another despised group close to Congress’s bottom position are reporters. I learned early about this group when I read an interview with me in the local paper I delivered that never took place. I quit my delivery job.
WHOM IS THE IDIOTS THAT THINK RONALD REAGAN A GREAT PRESIDENT,HELL NO HE SHOULD STAYED WITH MONKEY ON RADIO,,CERTANLY NOT A DECENT ACTOR WOULD NOT BEEN A ACTOR IF NOT FOR WIFE JANE WYMAN,COME ON HES CAUSE AMERICA IN MESS ITS IN,WAKE UP PEOPLE STOP IDOLIZING A IDIOT,A PERSON THAT SCARE RUSSA UNTO WORST AGREEMENT IN US HISTORY,HE CAUSE OF TOTAL PELEFROTATION OF NEUCLAR WEAPONS HE OPEN DOOR FOR RUSSIA TO SE AS THEY PLEASE TO ANY NATION THAT WANTED NEUCULAR WEAPONS ,THIDS DATANTE WORST THANG EVER HAPPEN TO AMERICA,,HAVE YOU FORGOT THE IRAN CONTRA DEAL HE MADE WITH IRAN GICING THE MISSLES OR SELLING THEM TO THEM SO HE COULD FINANCE A WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA,,USE MILITARY JETS TO HAUL DRUGS IN AMERICA,THE MAN SHOULD BEEN HUNG BY HIS BLOODY NECK FOR SELLING AMERICA DOWN THE TUBE,HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN OLIVER NORTH WAS GOING TO GO PUBLIC TLL TRUTH ABOUT REAGAN ,AND SAME WEEK REAGAN GOT ALSHAMERS NEVER HERD FROM AGAIN,YES YOUR RIGHT AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FOOLISH PEOPLE TO BELEAVE THIS MAN HAD AMERICA INTREST AT HEART,HELL FIRE BEFORE HE AND DANTE ,WE HAD ONE ENEMY WITH WHICH IF THEY SHOT A MISSLE AT US WE KNEW WHERE IT COME FROM NOW RUSSIA SOLD NEUCLAR WEAPONS EBVER COUNTY WANT THEM SO NOW SIR WHERE IS NEUCULAR WEAPON COMING FROM WE DONT KNOW THANKS TO THE GREAT REAGAN,SORRY WE ARE SO STUPID TO BELEAVE HIS CRAP
Well this guy is obviously a well spoken urban freeloader and no doubt a supporter of President Speedbump. Since an education is free in America I suggest you enroll in your local 3rd grade and pick up where you left off. Lazy and stupid is no way to go through life. Then maybe you could come up with a coherent sentence and a cure for Alshamers disease which is something carpenters get, so they can pay taxes to provide you welfare and food stamps.
AMEN! Do you really think this person made it as high as the 3rd grade?
I agree 100%. However, note that George Bush, Sr. was the President behind the President.
My all-time favorite President was Ronald Reagan his strategy for getting the Russians to back down from a long and drawn out cold war was outstanding. President Reagan understood if we were to win the cold war we had to become more powerful than our enemy. Any Serviceman worth his salt will tell you it’s all about your strategy and being able to change and adapt to ever evolving fighting techniques of our enemies. And just what pushed the US ahead of Russia you might ask? Two things actually (1) develop new and much more techonologically advanced nuclear weapons. The Japanese were very involved in manufacturing our computer chips for our weapons. (2.) No matter the cost we had to build up our stockpile of nuclear weapons as well as develop our Star Wars defense systems. This I really do believe was what made Gorbachav back down from us! But with much sadness we do not have a President Reagan in our White House anymore in fact the squatter that currently occupies our White House has done EVERYTHING to weaken us. I would highly recommend that all patriots that subscribe to Power For Patriots do watch and study a movie that was made back during President Reagans admin. it stars Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen and it is called Red Dawn.
China will probably use an EMP to disable everything first, then use conventional. They have already “joked” about doing this. They are buying all kinds of property here. They won’t nuke it when they can just take it first.
fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice sahme on me. japan did the same thing china is doing. pearl harbor!! the chinese are crazy people. they would nuke us in a heart beat. WWlll is here . just wait.
China is not our friend. As a nation we are making many unwise decisions & following a path economically & militarily & morally that will spell big trouble for us. Personally I believe our biggest enemy is not one that we currently see on the world stage at present. I would encourage you to watch Europe & a future union of ten nations with Germany as its head. I believe that is where our trouble will come from. Look at WWI & WWll. LC
A first strike nuclear attack that is absorbed by the target will be the silos that house our nukes. After the smoke clears, we will have nothing to fight with except our hunting rifles and bows and arrows. If the black doesn’t get them first. Our space based weapons will already be disabled by the enemy, before he strikes, if he is smart and thinks ahead. What enemy does not count the cost first? And make plans to win.
Having worked in Oak Ridge Y-12, ORNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lad and Rocky Flats in Boulder CO. I once knew the power and force our country’s Nuclear defense. With the US & Russia in a tear down and reduction of weapons, I’m certain China may have an upper hand on us. They are building wit everything they have and were tearing down as fast as we can Guess who will have the lead? China IS very educated and don’t have to come to the US for help. We on the other hand have to recruit from India, Japan and China to get the brainy workers and designers. China won’t need to press the button, just give the Nukes to Iran or N. Korea to do the deed.
As if their capability isn’t bad enough, all they have to do is continue to encourage folks like North Korea and Iran. If you haven’t read it, I strongly urge you to read, “Five Seconds After,” which is about a rouge attack on the USA using EMP from ships at sea. Half the population would die, either starve, or die of thirst, within a month. Another half of the remainder probably wouldn’t make it through the next winter.
Between our President and the Senate (which could have “EMP Protected and Proofed” our grid when it pasted the “Smart Grid” legislation), but Harry Reid cut that part of the bill out as ‘provocative’ to our enemies, so no one is watching out for us.
Frank is doing a great service here, publishing these things to keep people aware, of what is going on. I’m retired AF; read the Air Force magazine monthly and some blogs by veterans.
It is getting more and more scary and our ‘leader’ talks about further cuts in our Nuclear Triad almost weekly. The 450 Minuteman missiles we have on 15 minute alert, and the Navy’s few Boomers, are the ONLY thing keeping us from speaking Chinese or Arabic right now.
Your reckless, uneducated voting for idiots you know nothing about nothing has brought you to this point.
China was never a “friend” of US. But your acefaced politicians never realized the threat. They are to stupid for that. Obama has proved so far he is a sworn enemy of America and wants to see her dead. That’s precisely what “fundamental change”
means. Sadly, while 95% of “average Americans” are essentially good often church-going people they are simply to stupid to see obvious signs of trouble. Or, identify O as #1 enemy of the state.
You can start digging your graves now, ladies….
As individual citizens we have responsibility to elect an Administration and Congress that are always alert and out front of our adversaries. We have neither at the moment. We also have the power of the American dollar. Do not purchase anything made in China for a year. China is building its military might with Walmart, Target, Sears. J C Penney and most U.S. retailer’s purchases of goods. If we, you and I refuse to purchase made in China and demand all retailers sell made in the U.S.A. goods they will lose their cash cow.
The U.S.A. low information voters have elected an incompetent leader to address all these current problems. GO “O” GO
really enjoy the on-going education. I’ll contribute what I can.
DLL
Nobody wants a nuclear war, by having this technology China is putting itself in a defensive position, who wants to push the big button first. It is a no win for everyone. The super power we Americans have to worry about is the politicians we elect every two years. Our own government was set up on a checks and balances structure and it no longer works because, nobody is in Washington DC to represent the people. They are there to represent their political party’s and to fill their own pockets, at the expense of all Americans.
I understand that a nuclear first strike on the US will not be retaliated against, but instead, absorbed by the target. Being that our space based weapons will be the deterent for any second strike. This is the black-muslim-liar-in-cheif decision. And bho/it is dumping any military lead/general that does not agree with it. This country is over the edge from a hater of America, elected by haters of America. Our only salvation is from GOD and even mention HIS name and you could get shot by our authorities and those with a badge. Prayer is all we have left, because the people are too afraid to use bullets to clean out Wash DC and reinstate the Constitution and real Americans.
I agree with Patrick C ”
patrick C
1 week ago
“Its a real problem! china is a super power, we have no real power to tell them to do anything.
we cut our military and our defense spending while china builds there’s up. what for? they don’t care about us except that there economy is tied up with ours. they could eventually tell us they are taking us over and what would we do? there military out numbers our population, I think. If not its close enough! so what do we do? who knows? I do know that Washington will continue to run the country into the ground until it falls all around them. they don’t think, they don’t live in the real world, and they think they can deal with these countries. only until they say they are done with our BS! #sad but true # America’s weaker” But the action that weaken this country did not just start they what been on the decline for many years. The people we have in the White House on both sides of the Allies, are just a pack of FAT KIDS doing what ever big money tells them to do. The other dirty little secret is; that the people of the US have no stomach for any fight. The mother and some Dad’s don’t want their kid’s to go to WAR. We have become Fat and Weak.
This current generation do not understand freedom is not free.we have spend too much money on the last two wars and what do we get in turn? I will tell you; we got two guys we backed telling us what we can and can’t do. while we give them boxes full of $100, bill’s. These guys were nothing so why did we back them? Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq told us to get out of Iraq now that he has spend the money, and Al Qaeda is about run him out of the country, he come to Washington begging. He wants the United States to provide sophisticated weapons, including Apache attack helicopters, so that the Iraqi government can fight Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups. Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai is the other guy doing the same thing. The Nation building mess is not working, so If we go fight, do it right and get the Hell out” if you open up a can of kick A@@ on bullies you don’t have to live with them if you do it right they will not forget.
Its a real problem! china is a super power, we have no real power to tell them to do anything.
we cut our military and our defense spending while china builds there’s up. what for? they don’t care about us except that there economy is tied up with ours. they could eventually tell us they are taking us over and what would we do? there military out numbers our population, I think. If not its close enough! so what do we do? who knows? I do know that Washington will continue to run the country into the ground until it falls all around them. they don’t think, they don’t live in the real world, and they think they can deal with these countries. only until they say they are done with our BS! #sad but true # America’s weaker
Frank, here is what’s ironic to me. The US is providing China’s Universities with documentation and intellectual support to build Thorium Molten Salt Reactors, which the US developed and demonstrated at the ORNL Facility back in the 60’s. All of Alvin Weinberg’s team documentation has been digitized and place on the internet for anyone to have. The current US Government is not going to pursue it so my hat is off to Chinese for picking it up from the DOE and bringing it to the commercial market place. I won’t be surprise if we don’t sell them some U233 as starter fuel when they go critical with they first small reactor.. ..
Communism never really died, it just hid away in a cacoon until it receives its wings. Obama moved our Government in the direction of Socialism which is a step closer to Communism . Russia is neighbors with China and the threat between those two nations will probably erupt between themselves before us. Never-the-less they are both contrary to our Constitutional way of life. The problem also is that our Constitution has been compromised by our own people. I think the only thing that hasn’t changed is the signatures at the bottom. Gloomy picture I know, but shall we continue to defy Godly principles , keep deceiving ourselves and face eminent peril .
China is not and never was our friend. Those who think otherwise are fools. One on one the Chinese are fine people, just like anyone else but, the Government is another story all together. They want to be what America was…the world super power.
China owns over one TRILLION dollars of our US debt. When the US has a financial collapse….China will come collecting just like the other countries who own the US debt. Over forty percent of US debt is owned by other countries. So should we be scared? yep When the dollar collapses, the world will collapse with it. Going to be some mad people. The US leaders do not show much accountability for anything at all….And we are suppose to hold other countries accountable? They roll their eyes at us and do what they want anyways. OR WHAT? We will borrow more money from them so we can tell them that we will cut them off if they do not comply? Comply with our hypocrisy?
Finally someone smart enough to hit the nail on the head. The Chinese already own Chase bank and they’ve bought bunches of our other big money businesses. Properties that were formerly owned and run by Americans aren’t. China bought a lot of our international IOUs. Several countries mostly in Europe have cashed in our IOUs and have diminished our “stockpile” of gold…(ft Knox, gold standard, that kind of stuff). I understand that if you are a Chinese citizen and actually come by a bit of gold it must be turned in to the government. Then that good citizen gets a few yen credits. In Asia China has never tried to hide what they were doing. We weren’t smart enough to listen to what our “researchers” over there had to say. Oh yeah, about that PoS**t in DC posing as our leader. Had he not been re elected he’d be over “there” helping them and himself to the One World government. That is how he was raised and “groomed” for the job. Honestly, a large, large percentage of black Americans don’t believe in him anymore. It was hoped he would be another Martin L King, but he isn’t. At least MLK was a Christian. Christians are known by their “works”, not by the noises coming out of their mouths. O is not a Christian…I don’t care how many churches he’s been in. Two more personal bitches then I will shut up for now. One we do not elect our president by popular vote. Our electoral college does. Schools used to teach that in Jr high. Last bitch for tonite…the UN is not now our friend and hasn’t been for quite a while. They tell us what to do and we send our kids in as a police keepers that are murdered by our allies.
the only hope is that china becomes so entrepreneurial that it does not want to drop bombs on any of its customers..
my impression of russia was that the leaders were brutal
my impression of china is that they would care nothing if 100 million of us were to die
why does the mierdia call them “weapons of mass destruction” so vague ..why not say what it is : “weapons of mass death”
why not call 911 what it was …mass murder / massacre …who gives a rats about buildings when lives are being snuffed out ..remember the poor people who were forced to jump from the towers
China has a San Francisco based co. Producing fake ID’s that will scare through the police dept. computer systems, they refuse to stop it calling it novelty items. They are producing perfect U.S. currency and r buying 25% of for closures in cash! 60 minutes says the well financed Chinese Triads poach 3000 lbs of Abalony per day for a whopping $120,000,000. Annual profit to buy arms locally. Things that make you go, hmmm…
Wiki leaks prove China gov. Led the google technology break ins.
Ive been saying for well over 15 years, “we are paying China to destroy us” every time you buy a MADE IN CHINA you are helping them gain power! and look where we are now, .46 cents of every dollar we spend is barrowed from the Chinese!! The American people are so naive it’s just UNBELIEVABLE!
China is a world power not to be trusted. Any country that agrees to reduction in arms but instead keeps building up militarily and hacks into cyberspace world wide is dangerous and must at once be reined in. The Chinese are just as dangerous as that other country that is their ally and run by that lunatic that has small dog syndrome who keeps saying he wants to fight America.
As far as cyberspace goes, let us not be naive and continue to use proprietary software systems that have repeatedly proven themselves to be filled with security holes (Microsoft and Apple). In these ever changing and perilous times it is high time people woke up as I have and switched to open source software. In most cases there are no fees and never need to buy a security suite. This software is more secure than the expensive proprietary software.
We can all discuss arms reductions and other touchy feel good subjects, but the bottom line is we cannot afford to appear weak. Especially in light of our current administration’s insistance for apologizing and cowering to other countries. Besides, in reality, there are still plenty of nukes remaining now to turn the world into a lump of carbon, so the best defence is a strong position.