While Congress Dithers on Confederate Statues, China Builds 119 New ICBM Silos
By Susie Moore | Jul 01, 2021 9:00 AM ET
While House Democrats consider crucial decisions on such weighty issues as which statues of Southerners get removed from the Capitol, word emerged Thursday that the People’s Republic of China has undertaken a massive construction project to dig and fortify more than 100 new silos to house ICBMs.
Newly-released photos from the private commercial satellite company Planet appear to show upwards of 120 silos under construction spread over a vast swath of desert in northwestern China.
Experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies said the excavations appear capable of housing China’s DF-41 ICBM, which can contain multiple warheads and be delivered to targets in excess of 9,000 miles distant.
Not to draw too fine a point here but, hello, a 9,000-plus mile range would cover the United States. Flight distance from Yumen, a city near the new construction, to Washington, D.C. is only a little more than 6,000 miles.
Some of us recall the media’s near-panic and speculation about a nuclear Armageddon when North Korea fired some test missiles that crashed harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, which North Korea calls the East Sea because, well, Japan.
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