Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025 from: Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ~ Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight | Mar

Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025 from: Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ~ Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight | March 12, 2025 The modernization of China’s nuclear arsenal has both accelerated and expanded in recent years. In this issue of the Nuclear Notebook, we estimate that China now possesses approximately 600 nuclear warheads, with more in production to arm future delivery systems. China is believed to have the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal among the nine nuclear-armed states; it is the only Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons that is significantly increasing its nuclear arsenal. * https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-03/chinese-nuclear-weapons-2025/ https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-03/chinese-nuclear-weap... Also, the threshold laid out above was "erase an entire city" OR "make planet unihabitable". Any nation or group with a first gen atomic weapon can erase a city .. exercising that ability can potentially lead to a greater nuclear exchange between others, particularly if it's unclear what happened and what might be about to happen.