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China is aggressively building more nuclear weapons and these breeder reactors will be key to produce the weapons material needed.
by christkv 3y ago
China is aggressively building more nuclear weapons and these breeder reactors will be key to produce the weapons material needed.
- bastawhiz 3y agoDo you have a source for this?
- Ycombigatorz 3y ago[dead]
- delecti 3y agoIt's recently been in the news that China is substantially increasing the size of their nuclear arsenal. I can't substantiate the GP's claim that the weapons and reactors are connected, but it's a reasonable prediction. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207156597/new-pentagon-report-claims-china-now-has-over-500-operational-nuclear-warheads https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1207156597/new-pentagon-repor...
- jandrewrogers 3y agoHere is a Reuters source. China has also been building delivery systems along with those warheads. https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-nuclear-arsenal-more-than-500-warheads-pentagon-report-2023-10-19/ https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-nuclear-arsenal-more-th...
- meroes 3y agoCareful last time I brought this up on HN I was downvoted. Watch Dark Circle HN’ers.
- berserk1010 3y agothere are less of those on HN these days, most of these opportunistic hacks finally realized that China is collapsing economically and abandoned ship
- Moldoteck 3y agoYou were downvoted because it's meaningless affirmation. They already do have enough nukes. If just two countries would engage in such a war, it's basically the end for modern human era. Both China and US do have abt 500 nukes. Russia is estimated to have more than 1k(debatable but still). If china would get 500 more nukes, do you think 500 US rockets would not be enough to wipe China from existence? I bet 100 is more than enough. So all this anti breeding reactors/anti reprocessing propaganda is pure bs
- meroes 3y agoThe point is atomic energy feeds into the atomic weapons pipeline, and that whatever amount of nukes is really necessary, has long been passed by and this relationship between nuclear energy and weapons is not shown to be dismantled.
- Ekaros 3y agoGood for them, every country should have effective arsenal of nuclear weapons to use in defence.
- missedthecue 3y agoThe rare pro nuclear-proliferation opinion. Bold. I like it.
- tomatotomato37 3y agoAnd? They've had enough to guarantee a retaliation strike for awhile now, any extra is just wasted resources on dick-waving