China has also built several submarines that can launch nuclear missiles. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyWhy does China fear the antimissile system? Deploying Thaad’s current radar system “would undermine China’s nuclear deterrence by collecting important data on Chinese nuclear warheads,” Li Bin, a nuclear weapons expert at Tsinghua University in Beijing, wrote last week. It doesn’t matter to us whether the United States says this is aimed at North Korea or China,” Mr. Wu said. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“I think this is what really worries them, because then what you have is the basis for a common interoperable system,” said Michael J.

Source: New York Times March 11, 2017 16:18 UTC