[DB]

Why do you suppose that is?

Do we have them pointed at Japan?

They wouldn't be pointed at China if they weren't pointing theirs at us and increasing the number constantly. We would be foolish not to return the favor.

[AIG]

It would take China a very long time to develop as many ICBM's as America currently already possesses. The recent Congressional commission released a report saying China might have a total of 60 ICBM's (up from 20) in 10 years, but even with 60 that would just be 1% of the number America currently already has. I would suspect that during the Cold War, America programmed its ICBM's to be targeted on China long before China even manufactured its first ICBM. And China has generally been a lot slower to build new ICBM's over the past few decades. The 20 ICBM's today are very old, liquid- rather than more modern solid-fuel type ICBM's. And their warheads aren't even kept on the missiles but in storage. After first exploding a nuclear device about 4 decades ago and having only 20 ICBM's today with their warheads kept in storage, China's not been the big assembly-line manufacturer of ICBM's as you portray.