Epoch Times
Date: February 17,
By: Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times
The Chinese regime may be changing its policy on nuclear weapons, from
The Chinese military displays its DF-5B missiles during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2015. The Chinese regime may put its nuclear forces on “hair-trigger” alert. (Rolex Dela Pena/AFP/Getty Images)
one based on “survivability” to one that has its missiles ready to launch at any moment.
Recent discussions in the Chinese military “suggest pressure is building to change China’s nuclear posture,” says a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
It may be moving, the report says, “toward a policy of launch-on-warning and hair-trigger alert.”
As the report notes, the United States “keeps hundreds of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.” But if China were to change its policy, it would make the threat of nuclear war more present.
“Such a change would dramatically increase the risk of a nuclear exchange or accident—a dangerous shift that the United States could help avert,” it states.
There has been a chain of incidents leading to the alleged shift. [FULL STORY]
