Lyle J. Goldstein, National Interest: Millions Would Die: Check Out China's Nuclear War Plan Against America
Could this happen?
Elsewhere, I have, moreover, documented Chinese discussions of tactical nuclear weapons for anti-submarine warfare, as well as the importance of nuclear-tipped submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCMs) for strategy in the late Cold War. Let’s hope that these are just academic discussions in the Chinese context and do not reflect actual weapons under development.
When one reads enough Chinese naval literature, diagrams of multi-axial cruise missile saturation attacks against aircraft carrier groups may begin to seem normal. However, one particular graphic from the October 2015 issue (p. 32) of the naval journal Naval & Merchant Ships [舰船知识] stands out as both unusual and singularly disturbing. It purports to map the impact of a Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) strike by twenty nuclear-armed rockets against the United States.
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WNU Editor: The above article was posted a few years ago and is updated for today. As to my take on China's nuclear weapons ambitions. This report from 2 years ago tells me that while China has not built up a nuclear arsenal that is comparable to Russia and the U.S., they have laid the groundwork where they can accomplish this very quickly .... China Tests A New Missile That Can Carry 10 Nuclear Warheads (January 31, 2017).