[They store warheads, launchers and missiles separately.
We can preempt them at will with a single Trident boat.
Counterforce.
No, they will never try to sink a US carrier.]
What they have in their underground facilities is anybody’s guess. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Great_Wall_of_China My take is that anyone who nukes China had better be prepared to kill every last one of them. Because nuclear retribution is only a matter of time. A president willing to kill 1.3 b people over the deaths of 5,000 in a conventional attack and risk the deaths of over 100m Americans? I think that’s a stretch.
” A president willing to kill 1.3 b people over the deaths of 5,000 in a conventional attack and risk the deaths of over 100m Americans? “
It would not start that way.
Small tactical nukes against Chinese forces outside the mainland first, escalating to direct strikes against their military facilities on the mainland if they retaliate.
With thousands of warheads in reserve.
In 2009, the Office of Naval Intelligence of the United States Navy listed the Type 094 as being slightly noisier than Project 667BDR (NATO reporting name: Delta III) from the late-1970s,[17] some of which were in service through 2015 with the Russian Navy.[
There’s a sonar operator in Pearl Harbor right now listening to all of them once they leave port. The USN has a Virginia class on it’s tail at all times.
When they are able to leave port.