China Is Building a Second Nuclear Missile Silo Field

Silos are so far a apart that single warhead can destroy only one silo.<p>Arms control experts seem to think that China is building missile &quot;sponge&quot;. Field of 120 silos would contain only 12 ICBM&#x27;s or so. If they build enough silos into the desert and and decoys for the rest, the US must spend more and more missiles to destroy just few missiles.<p>The US had similar plan at the beginning of the Cold War. It became politically impossible to use eminent domain to create so large missile fields on farmland.

A similar photo hit the web a month or so ago. Turned out to be windmills.<p>It makes no sense to put missile silos close together.<p>I’ll reserve judgment for now, but I doubt the headline’s claim.

Is this at all surprising that the chinese would see the need for such nuclear deterrent, since the US still has 1800 silos (that are public knowledge).

Honestly I find this use of Google maps to find military sites or concentration camps questionable.<p>However it is fairly obvious to me that the Chinese are going to expand their nuclear weapons arsenal until it matches that of the Americans.<p>The solution for this is for the Americans to have a smaller arsenal.