In 2021, retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis wrote a novel titled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, which was widely praised by U.S. nuclear war proponents. Some people even suggested that the timeline in the book was wrong—not 2034, but 2026. However, for the Chinese, this is laughable, especially given that the U.S. Navy is struggling even to maintain the F-35s.

However, it’s worth noting that, according to a New York Times report on August 20 this year, Pranay Vaddi, a senior director at the U.S. National Security Council, revealed that the U.S. plans to expand its nuclear arsenal to “simultaneously deter Russia, China, and North Korea.” MIT nuclear strategist and former Pentagon official Vipin Narang also stated that Biden has “issued new nuclear weapons use guidelines.”

This optimistic estimate gives some politicians the confidence to plan a nuclear strike against China. For example, the RAND Corporation’s report titled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable, asserts that China cannot ensure at least one nuclear warhead would explode on U.S. soil, while the U.S. can be certain at least one warhead would hit China, giving the U.S. a nuclear advantage.

Rather than instilling fear, this report mostly amuses the Chinese, as even Japan during World War II, which lacked nuclear capabilities and missiles, only surrendered after two nuclear strikes. Does RAND think today’s China is weaker than Japan during World War II?

However, according to The New York Times, last year in Ukraine, the U.S.’s Patriot system failed to stop Russia’s Mach 10 Dagger missile, and even the interception system itself was even struck by it. This actual combat record cast doubt on America’s ability to handle China’s much faster DF-31AG, which reaches Mach 23.

Additionally, over the past 40 years, China’s missile tests have mostly been launched from several inland provinces in the northwest, which the U.S. had thoroughly monitored. The Pentagon believed that as long as their radar systems focused on certain regions in China, they could always track the trajectory of Chinese nuclear missiles and intercept them easily.

This is because, the Pentagon’s 2023 report on China’s military believed that China had only 500 nuclear warheads. According to the report from the Washington Post and Forbes, the US believes only 24 of China’s 500 warheads may have been actively deployed, ready to be launched at the U.S. While most of the remaining warheads were stored separately from their missiles, which are non-deployed.

During the Cold War, the Pentagon theorized that in the event of a surprise attack, all non-deployed nuclear warheads would be destroyed, so if a nuclear war broke out between China and the U.S., the U.S. would only need to deal with 24 Chinese nuclear warheads. Currently, the U.S. has 64 interceptor missiles deployed in Alaska and California, and the Pentagon optimistically calculated that using 2 interceptors for each Chinese missile, they could neutralize 100% of any counterattacks.

On September 25th, China conducted an intercontinental missile test over the Pacific. After flying 12,000 kilometers, the missile landed in open waters near French Polynesia. Though the Pentagon confirmed it was notified in advance, U.S. media still criticized the move, claiming it was a threat to America.

But from China’s perspective, this missile test may have actually prevented a nuclear war. Because it demonstrated China’s mutual destructive capability again, therefore stopped President Biden from pursuing a dangerous path toward nuclear conflict.

Photos released by China’s military show the missile launched was a DF-31AG, an upgraded version of the DF-31 ICBM. Its maximum speed has been increased from Mach 20 to Mach 23, and can carry three nuclear warheads instead of one. These performance improvements have deterred the ambitions of U.S. nuclear war hawks.

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