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"Never Seen Anything Like It": Satellite Pics Show China Is Building Launch Pads Near Nuclear Missile Silos
Reuters / NDTV ^ | 5.30.2026

Posted on 05/30/2026 11:54:54 AM PDT by libh8er

In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China's nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing's ability to hit back.

China's nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the United States. Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military's longest-range missiles.

The images reveal more than 80 pads for possible use by China's expanding fleet of mobile missile launchers and air-defense batteries. They also show facilities that may serve electronic warfare, satellite communications and command operations, according to three security analysts, who assessed the imagery for Reuters

The scale of the construction, which hasn't been previously reported, points to a sweeping expansion of hardened infrastructure designed to protect and operate China's land-based nuclear forces. Taken together, the network signals a significant upgrade in Beijing's efforts to ensure second-strike capability, underscoring intensifying nuclear competition with the United States as tensions rise over issues such as Taiwan's sovereignty.

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KEYWORDS: bernardschwartz; billclinton; campaignmoney; ccp; chicoms; china; chinaissupermancult; demonicrats; loralspace; mirvtechnology; quidproquo

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1 posted on 05/30/2026 11:54:54 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Bill Clinton’s legacy continues to reward his chicom buddies.


2 posted on 05/30/2026 11:57:02 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

Ross Perot’s legacy ...


3 posted on 05/30/2026 12:01:11 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: libh8er

Take out Three Gorges Dam and China becomes a non issue


4 posted on 05/30/2026 12:02:07 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: kaktuskid

Really?

And they do what? Surrender?


5 posted on 05/30/2026 12:02:56 PM PDT by Fury
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To: kaktuskid

CORRECT


6 posted on 05/30/2026 12:07:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Bernard Schwartz, Loral, and MIRV technology.


7 posted on 05/30/2026 12:08:21 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: kaktuskid

Yes


8 posted on 05/30/2026 12:08:23 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Fury

Well you knew it was just a matter of time before some idiot posted it.😃


9 posted on 05/30/2026 12:11:58 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the Change You Filthy Animal !)
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To: libh8er

We’re all gonna be in the grease, no matter who gets the first strike in.

I only wish we could be assured that the evil creatures, who initiate the conflagration, would themselves be, painfully, consumed.


10 posted on 05/30/2026 12:12:48 PM PDT by old school
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To: libh8er

Peace baby. Trump and Zinger are good friends.


11 posted on 05/30/2026 12:14:20 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Opinions and belly buttons, everybody has one and they get to show them if they want to.)
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To: kaktuskid

Take out Three Gorges Dam and China becomes a non issue


And trigger an all out thermonuclear war. Killing 400 million Chinese is not a joking matter. Its a death sentence for most Americans.


12 posted on 05/30/2026 12:14:23 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: libh8er

I wonder how many of their Harbor Fright nuclear weapons would actually work, if push comes to shove.


13 posted on 05/30/2026 12:21:19 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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“...is on track to field 1,000 warheads by 2030...”

It would take about a 100 neudets, less than 1% of the global stockpile, detonated over major cities, to trigger a nuclear winter. A nuclear winter would trigger an unprecedented global catastrophe, causing temperatures to plummet, agriculture to collapse, and mass starvation that would kill billions. The current estimate

Simpler it would take one neudet in space to take out 1000’s of satellites and cripple the earth without their use. It is estimated that around a third of the earth’s population will be gone within hours of the first blast and the other two thirds will go within the next 10 years as food disappears and radiation poisoning strikes.

So China is just another piece of the puzzle.

wy69


14 posted on 05/30/2026 12:29:11 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: libh8er

“...is on track to field 1,000 warheads by 2030...”

It would take about a 100 neudets, less than 1% of the global stockpile, detonated over major cities, to trigger a nuclear winter. A nuclear winter would trigger an unprecedented global catastrophe, causing temperatures to plummet, agriculture to collapse, and mass starvation that would kill billions. The current estimate

Simpler it would take one neudet in space to take out 1000’s of satellites and cripple the earth without their use. It is estimated that around a third of the earth’s population will be gone within hours of the first blast and the other two thirds will go within the next 10 years as food disappears and radiation poisoning strikes.

So China is just another piece of the puzzle.

wy69


15 posted on 05/30/2026 12:29:11 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: libh8er

The thing about mobile missile launchers of the size to carry nuclear tip missiles is they are very large and hard to hide, and expensive to build. I wouldn’t doubt if half or more of them they build will be fake just to try to fool us into believing they have a lot of them, I wouldn’t put it pass them.


16 posted on 05/30/2026 12:39:40 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: kaktuskid

Take out that dam and China will launch every nuke they have. That’s well enough to send this country back to the 1500’s. With 250 m. dead. If we’re lucky.


17 posted on 05/30/2026 12:42:21 PM PDT by 2big2fail (.)
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To: 2big2fail

Yep

It will be on like Donkey Kong

In multiple places


18 posted on 05/30/2026 1:02:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: PIF

“Killing 400 million Chinese is not a joking matter.”

The CCP might welcome this level of downsizing.


19 posted on 05/30/2026 1:17:45 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KingLudd

The CCP probably cares about it’s people about as much as our government cares about us.


20 posted on 05/30/2026 1:19:12 PM PDT by KingLudd
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