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| Georgetown students shed light on China's tunnel system for nuclear weapons | ||
| 2011-12-01 | ||
| Via Instapundit The Chinese have called it their "Underground Great Wall" -- a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country's increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has called it something else: homework.
The result of their effort? The largest body of public knowledge about thousands of miles of tunnels dug by the Second Artillery Corps, a secretive branch of the Chinese military in charge of protecting and deploying its ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads. The study is yet to be released, but already it has sparked a congressional hearing and been circulated among top officials in the Pentagon, including the Air Force vice chief of staff. Most of the attention has focused on the 363-page study's provocative conclusion -- that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than the well-established estimates of arms-control experts. | ||
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