China working to double nuclear warheads:
China is expected to at least double the number of its nuclear warheads over the next 10 years - from an estimated figure in the low 200s it has now - and is nearing the ability to launch nuclear attacks by land, air and sea, a capacity known as a triad, the Pentagon has revealed.
The annual report to Congress on China's military marks the first time it has put a number to China's nuclear warheads. The Federation of American Scientists has estimated that China has about 320.
The Pentagon said the growth projection was based on factors including Beijing having enough material to double its nuclear weapons stockpile without new fissile material production.
Begun, the Second Nuclear Arms Race has?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by evilcam on Friday September 04 2020, @01:41AM
Sorta...
There's a great story about an Australian Collins Class sub [wikipedia.org] that managed to sink a US Carrier during some war games (albeit quite a few years back).
Video doco-thing about it is on Youtube here [youtube.com]...
My favourite part of the story is apparently they played Men At Work's over the Gertrude (sea telephone) to announce the kill... The thought of a sonar operator on the carrier intently listening and starting at a screen on high alert then suddenly hearing that riff come through their headphones fills me with joy... [youtube.com]