Washington, October 19(Press Ki Taquat)<\/strong><\/p>\n

China has more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal and will probably have over 1,000 warheads by 2030, the Pentagon said in its annual report on Beijing\u2019s military that was released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Despite the growing number of China\u2019s nuclear weapons, they are still much lower than what Russia and the United States have.<\/p>\n

In a previous report, the Pentagon estimated that Beijing had more than 400 operational nuclear warheads in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see the PRC (People\u2019s Republic of China) continuing to quite rapidly modernise and diversify and expand its nuclear forces,\u201d a senior US official told reporters during a briefing on the report. \u201cWhat they\u2019re doing now if you compare it to what they were doing about a decade ago, it really far exceeds that in terms of scale and complexity,\u201d the official said. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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