{"id":12276,"date":"2023-11-25T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2023-11-25T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T14:58:20","slug":"china-is-working-on-a-weapon-the-us-decided-was-too-dangerous-to-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12276","title":{"rendered":"China is working on a weapon the US decided was too dangerous to exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The US Defense Department believes the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army is developing a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. That is, a heavy, multi-stage missile that leaves the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and travels around the world at huge velocities before re-entering and descending toward its target at 20 times the speed of sound. Such missiles normally have a nuclear warhead<\/a>: but this one, uniquely, would be armed with conventional explosives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an incredibly dangerous idea. A bad idea the Pentagon is intimately familiar with. After all, it tried to develop the same kind of \u201cconventional\u201d ICBM years ago \u2013 and ultimately gave up as it began to appreciate everything that could go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Namely, there seemed to be a good chance that, if US forces ever fired a conventional ICBM in anger, nuclear-armed countries would detect the launch, recognize the energy and trajectory of an ICBM \u2013 and be faced with an impossible dilemma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were the Americans launching a nuclear first strike? Would they lie, if asked? And how long could America\u2019s nuclear rivals wait for clarification before launching their own nukes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A non-nuclear ICBM was, and still is, a nuclear nightmare. That was the cold truth when the missile was an American idea. And it\u2019s still <\/em>the truth now that it\u2019s a Chinese <\/em>idea. \u201cConventionally-armed ICBMs would present significant risks to strategic stability,\u201d the Pentagon warned in its latest annual report on Chinese military capabilities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/china-working-weapon-us-decided-113322091.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The US Defense Department believes the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army is developing a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. That is, a heavy, multi-stage missile that leaves the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and travels around the world at huge velocities before re-entering and descending toward its target at 20 times the speed of sound. Such missiles normally have a nuclear warhead: but this one, uniquely, would be armed with conventional explosives.
\nIt\u2019s an incredibly dangerous idea. A bad idea the Pentagon is intimately familiar with. After all, it tried to develop the same kind of \u201cconventional\u201d ICBM years ago \u2013 and ultimately gave up as it began to appreciate everything that could go wrong.<\/p>\n

Namely, there seemed to be a good chance that, if US forces ever fired a conventional ICBM in anger, nuclear-armed countries would detect the launch, recognize the energy and trajectory of an ICBM \u2013 and be faced with an impossible dilemma.<\/p>\n

Were the Americans launching a nuclear first strike? Would they lie, if asked? And how long could America\u2019s nuclear rivals wait for clarification before launching their own nukes?<\/p>\n

A non-nuclear ICBM was, and still is, a nuclear nightmare. That was the cold truth when the missile was an American idea. And it\u2019s still the truth now that it\u2019s a Chinese idea. \u201cConventionally-armed ICBMs would present significant risks to strategic stability,\u201d the Pentagon warned in its latest annual report on Chinese military capabilities.”<\/p>\n

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