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If the United States destroyed the Chinese nuclear launching points, would China have any second strike ability to target the United States? China has over 3,000 miles of tunnels. Where would you bomb to destroy them?

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Subject: If the United States destroyed the Chinese nuclear launching points, would China have any second strike ability to target the United States? China has over 3,000 miles of tunnels. Where would you bomb to destroy them?
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by: Rusty Wyse - Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:21 UTC

Joseph Wang
Studied at Ph.D Astronomy UT Austin, Physics MIT2y
If the United States destroyed the Chinese nuclear launching points, would China have any second strike ability to target the United States?
Chinese nuclear doctrine involves minimal deterrence. What that if China has 30 missiles, and the US manages to knock out 29 missiles, it will launch that one missile and nuke an American city, and at that point the possibility that one missile will survive and that Los Angeles will go poof is enough for the US not to push things.

In the words of Clint Eastwood.

The thing that China is trying to prevent is nuclear blackmail. The thing that China isn’t worried about is that the US will launch a massive attack, but rather that the US will threaten to nuke Shanghai if China doesn’t do X. The fact that the US did this in the 1950’s is why China has nukes in the first place.

I suspect that Chinese nuclear doctrine doesn’t involve defending against a mass attack, because you have to ask the question, suppose the US carries out a massive nuclear strike against China. 3000 nuclear weapons. You destroy every major Chinese city, and end up killing 400 million people.

Now what?

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