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CIA: China expected to have 75 to 100 nuclear missiles pointed at U.S. by 2015
Posted by Scott Manning on January 10, 2002 | Comments (2)

WASHINGTON — By the year 2015, as many as 100 Chinese nuclear missiles could be aimed at the continental United States, as could long-range nukes in Iran and North Korea, a new CIA report said.

The long-range missiles, capable of hitting the U.S., are part of China's strategy of maintaining a nuclear deterrent against America with a larger, mobile force, "Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015," reported Wednesday. Full Story...The CIA report can be found at:
http://www.cia.gov/nic/pubs/other_products/Unclassifiedballisticmissilefinal.htm

 
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