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In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor of the former Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Of these, the three NATO members, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, are sometimes termed the P3. [2]
The People's Republic of China has developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons. The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964, and its first hydrogen bomb test occurred in 1966 at Lop Nur. [3]
In this issue of the Nuclear Notebook, we estimate that China now possesses roughly 500 nuclear warheads, with more in production to arm future delivery systems. China is now believed to have one of the fastest-growing nuclear arsenals among the nine nuclear-armed states.
Global Nuclear Power: China Home » Global Nuclear Stockpiles » China China has possessed nuclear weapons since 1964. They currently have a stockpile of approximately 410 nuclear warheads. China continues its modernization efforts for its nuclear arsenal, but is expanding it significantly in recent years. To learn more about China and nuclear weapons, see what…
As of October 2023, the Defense Department assessed that China has a total of 500 nuclear weapons and, if it remains on its current trajectory, may have up to 1000 deliverable nuclear warheads by 2030.
The Department of Defense estimates that China has approximately 300 nuclear-capable land-based missiles which may launch as many as 400 warheads. Many of these are silo-based DF-5A and DF-5B as well as the more modern and road-mobile DF-31 and DF-41 class missiles.
China considers all of its nuclear weapons to be strategic, but the US military calls its medium-and intermediate-range missile non-strategic. Our detailed 2024 overview of Chinese nuclear forces is here .
The Pentagon’s 2022 report to Congress estimated that by 2030 China’s nuclear stockpile “will have about 1,000 operational nuclear warheads, most of which will be fielded on systems capable of ranging the continental United States” (US Department of Defense 2022a, 97).
China is developing an increasingly sophisticated array of missiles, submarines, bombers and hypersonic vehicles that can deliver nuclear strikes. Jason Lee/Reuters. A major shift in China’s...
Xi views nuclear weapons as having excessive coercive power beyond the military realm—prompting and propelling a nuclear expansion that lacks clearly defined military goals and suffers from internal disorientation and incoherence.