How Nuclear Missile, Submarine and Stealth Bomber Capabilities Match Up | WSJ U.S. vs. China

The WSJ forgot to compare how many balloons the two country has.

Predictably, WSJ focuses mostly on equipment & next to nothing on nuclear doctrine & operations. A lot of the PLARF weaknesses cited by WSJ (e.g. the vulnerability of SSBNs) is of little relevance in the context of the PLA's doctrine of "minimal deterrence" - meaning that it doesn't plan to attempt any surprise attacks (i.e. 1st strike) on an adversary, & it only has to respond w/ a sufficiently devastating counterattack to any enemy 1st strike attempt. That's why it has never built & doesn't need to build anywhere near as big of an arsenal as that of the US. Even if a portion of the PLARF's arsenal is neutralized in an enemy 1st strike, it will still have enough left to destroy enough enemy population centers in a counterstrike to ensure MAD. This is the rationale behind the DF-41 silos.

It's a wonderful content by WSJ but the hard fact is you cannot compare nuclear power of two countries by equipments, once a Country is Nuclear State then no country can ever dream of military conflict with it like for example US has World Strongest Military Force but US can even not dare to think of invading North Korea.

USA defence budget is mora than India, China, Russia combined.

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I think it’s a US mentality that some things are only allowed by the U.S. and can only be done by the U.S. No other countries are allowed to do so. Thus, whenever any other country comes even close to the U.S., they would take it as a threat.

Here is my analogy of this, two guys standing in a gas tanker bragging who has the most matches

Great report, but @ [6:54], I think the narrator may have confused the words "deploy," "employ," and "launch."

Showing a shadow of a Yak-130 (A Russian jet trainer and Attack aircraft) to illustrate the H-20 bomber 😂 Nice job WSJ ! BTW ! H-20 is rumoured to be just like the stealth flying wing B-2, perhaps a copy. Which could replace the old H-6s

We just survived a plague and now people want to fight a nuke war🙄

Edward Kennedy said about nuclear arms race , " We are like a bunch of guys standing in a pool of petrol arguing how many matches each has".

Scary time we are living in. I hope these will not be used 😭

“They launched a long-range missile,” General John Hyten, the outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told CBS News. “It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China.”18 Nov 2021

Maybe the concept of a nuclear 'triad' ought to be revised for the modern strategic nuclear reality/capacities, etc, as in, the cold war paradigm of ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers doesn't really reflect the current strategic arsenals of the world's nuclear powers... Which have some qualitatively different systems that some nations field, including: -the old triad' of ICBMs, SLBMs, and conventional bombers, AND: -road mobile ICBMs (as well as strategic cruise missiles like the GLCM 'Glick-um' which was deployed in Europe near the end of the Cold War, and which some analysts considered a strategic checkmate vs the USSR-, and helped end the 4 decades of MAD), -manuverable hypersonic missiles/glide vehicles, -stealth (as opposed to conventional) bombers, -maybe even space-based weapons (currently restricted by treaty, but who knows?) -doomsday weapons like Russia's Poisiden '100 megaton' autonomous nuclear powered UUV, -and, (I hope not) something like a cobalt 60 doomsday nuke... At least the U.S. backed away from such doomsday weapons like FOBS, EMP nukes, and the SLAM nuclear powered hypersonic radiation-spewing multi warhead cruise missile, in the 60s! Maybe others will (other than Russia, apparently! China has demonstrated a FOBS capability, BTW, which is qualitatively different and much more threatening/hard to detect and counter than 'normal' ICBMs...) Thoughts 🤔?

The Chinese people should know we don't have a problem with China,we want to work together in peace toward the greater good of both people.

China is a country with sea and road-based mid-course anti-missiles. There are 30,000 kilometers of underground nuclear facilities. Because China was under the nuclear threat of the United States and the Soviet Union. (There are specific attack cities and how many nuclear bombs are assigned to each city)

3 more important factor is ignored here. 1. Anti Ballistic missile defence, the nukes has to reach its target to be effective. 2. Hypersonic nukes, is a sure thing. 3. Satellite guidance and surveillance capabilities, how resilient and how dependable are they during wartime.

How can you blame the Chinese? If a country builds a bunch of military bases around the US, an arms buildup is inevitable.

Thank you WSJ for producing quality content.

Its like strong fight between one strong man to the other strong man,