18 Hydrogen Bombs Could Ruin Your Whole Week

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While we were preocupied with Bill Clinton and Janet Reno perform heroic deeds in Miami. the Chinese media this last week was filled with articles saying "LIBERATE TAIWAN IN 2000"
A detailed article was published in a goverenment sponsored scientific and mikitary journal outlining war plans. It described haevy misile triles, massive air raids, and airborne invasions.
The authors stste that the United States will be too afraid of China's long range ballistic missiles to think about intervening on Taiwan's side.
Meanwhile some US intelligence reports now credit the Chinese with having 18 or 20 ICBMs ready for war,
In testimony before cogress the US Navy said recently that we have three aircraft carriers (out of our total active force of 10) in the western pacific which might be used to help defend Taiwan in the event China attacks. Each carrier carries approximately 80-85 combat aircraft and forms the core of a battle group of cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.
 
I woudn't mind their buying Clinton if only hey would take delivery.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Hard Ball:
I woudn't mind their buying Clinton if only hey would take delivery.[/quote]
Maybe someone at ups will steal him.
 
Does anybody else get the impression that the White House uses what should be relatively minor events as smoke screens to distract from major issues?

On the matter of sending Bill to China, I'll pay for a First Class one-way ticket. That will be my blow for freedom!
 
Hardball, my library is pretty good about getting articles, books, etc. Can you name a source for the info? Is it in Chinese? I have friends, thanks, BB.
 
Data on Chinese military capabilities in the long range ballistic area comes from testimony before congressional committees much of which was reprinted in the magazine AVIATION WEEK during the last 12 months.
 
I was reading through this thread when a dismal thoight occurred to me. I'm afraid that I may be posting the same topic next year, but the title will be "100 Hydrogen bombs can ruin your whole year"
 
Testerday the Chinese goverenment issued a staement denouncing any attempt by the US to deploy a limited National Ballistic Misile defence (NBMD). They stated that US deployment of any kind of NBMD no matter how small would be a hostile act against the Peoples Republic and would cause them to deploy large new numbers of nueclear weapons which woukd be able to strike the United States.
 
Taiwan seems to have upped the ante.
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/5/12/55017


Has Taiwan Gone Nuclear?
NewsMax.com
Friday, May 12, 2000
If a report in a prestigious publication dealing with defense issues is correct, Taiwan has joined the nuclear weapons club, and the strategic situation in the Taiwan Straits has changed drastically.
According to a report in the authoritative Defence and Foreign Affairs journal the Taiwanese military have gotten their hands on two nuclear warheads and put them on a pair of medium-range ballistic missiles aimed at the mainland.

The journal, published by the International Strategic Studies Association in Washington reports that the nukes, originally owned by South Africa, were obtained in an under-the-counter deal brokered by a so-called "intermediary Middle Eastern country."

Taiwanese officials strongly denied the report and said they didn’t have any "medium-range surface-to-surface missiles" that could carry nuclear warheads and, thanks to restictions on exports of missile technology, couldn’t develop their own arsenal of ballistic missiles if they wanted to.

Nevertheless, if the report is true, the entire strategic situation, vis-a-vis the Taiwan-Mainland China standoff, has changed drastically. China has made no secret about their plans to invade Taiwan should the island’s government declare independence.

Published reports from official People’s Liberation Army have outlined a blitzkrieg-like attack on Taiwan, with hundred of thousands of PLA troops landing on the island and overwhelming Taiwanese defenses. The lightning like invasion would effectively preclude U.S. participation in the early stages of the war, and China bluntly warned the United States that they would not hesitate to use their own nuclear arsenal against the United States, should the United States attempt to use nuclear weapons in retalliation against China.

But, if Taiwan does have even as few as two nuclear missiles aimed at the mainland, they could stop a Chinese invasion dead in its tracks. It could be back-to-the-drawing board for Chinese strategic planners, and a toning down of the war of words Beijing has been waging.




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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
A few things to bear in mind:
The "18" ICBM's Red China has *might* be 23--or more...
Nukes can be carried by a air-breathing cruise missle--or a tramp steamer, or a truck...
That W-88 MIRV warhead design the PLA stole, bought or bribed out of us NORMALLY carries 8 independently tagetable 150 kiloton warheads, but if I remember right, CAN carry as many as 10--
10 X 18=180 targets
10 X 23=230
...gee, that would sure make a mess of this continent.
Famous last words, "only 2 years left, how much damage can he do?"
 
Folks, it's not only Clinton that supports normalization of trade with China. Bush Sr and now GW are supporting normalization. The strongest proponents are the Republicans. The Democrats, for once in their tired lives, have come out on the right side and opposed normalization. Get on the phone and call your representative. If you we don't put on the pressure the bill will pass, the senate will surely approve and Clinton will absolutely sign it.

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So many pistols, so little money.
 
Originally posted by johnr:
A few things to bear in mind:
The "18" ICBM's Red China has *might* be 23--or more...
Nukes can be carried by a air-breathing cruise missle--or a tramp steamer, or a truck.. clipped..
Or a container off-loaded at the (now) Chinese controlled facility at Long Beach Naval Shipyard - huh?

AB
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Hard Ball:
I was reading through this thread when a dismal thoight occurred to me. I'm afraid that I may be posting the same topic next year, but the title will be "100 Hydrogen bombs can ruin your whole year"[/quote]

There's a next year? Guess I better buy more "goodies".

For the best part of 50 years I've been saying "It won't be like this in 02." And just when I thought I really might find out what "02' will be like, Hardball does this to me.

Oh well - better get my glasses renewed so I can actually see the front sight. Thanks, HB.

AB
 
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