Asia (bbabo.net), - China may well overtake the United States in the number of nuclear warheads mounted on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). This was reported by Defense News on Thursday. Excerpts from the article on December 8, published by TASS.

“Recently, the Strategic Command (STRATCOM) of the US Armed Forces sent a classified document to the US Congress. Under US law, STRATCOM must notify Congress if China deploys more ICBMs or ICBM launchers than the US. However, according to the Pentagon and Congress, the United States still maintains an advantage in the number of deployed ICBMs and ICBM launchers, ”writes Defense News.

According to the authors of the article, this indicates that STRATCOM did not notify Congress of a change in the ratio of these two elements. There is a third component that, by law, must be notified to Congress. We are talking about a situation where the number of ICBM warheads exceeds that which the United States has.

“It should be all about the warheads. The report on China's military power estimates that Beijing's nuclear stockpile has exceeded 400 units, ”Jeffrey Lewis, member of the State Department's International Security Advisory Council, said.

According to the publication, the US has 400 ICBMs and 450 launchers for them. The PRC has 300. According to Lewis, the Chinese Dongfeng-41 ballistic missile can "carry multiple warheads." Therefore, in his opinion, if China has 300 missiles, then nuclear warheads "maybe a little more than 400."

In the US, the situation is different: American Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles can carry only one nuclear warhead.

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