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China has a "no first use" policy with nuclear weapons, so it's entirely possible for a conventional war to be fought. They do have a large range of conventiona
by sitharus 8y ago
China has a "no first use" policy with nuclear weapons, so it's entirely possible for a conventional war to be fought. They do have a large range of conventionally-armed missiles though, so I have no idea how the escalation path would go.
- XorNot 8y agoThe problem is a conventional ballistic missile launch of the type you use to sink a carrier is indistinguishable to a nuclear ballistic launch and you can't really vector trajectories very far in advance of losing counterstrike capability. They're effectively not usable.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoThat's only for some of the cold war tech; modern missiles don't use a ballestic trajectory but instead actively fly a path optimized for avoiding point-defense