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China is building more than 100 new intercontinental ballistic missile silos in a desert near the city of Yumen, according to satellite images and independent experts who spoke with Washington Post on Wednesday. The construction suggests the Communist nation is expanding its nuclear capabilities. Satellite images provided by Planet to researchers at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif., revealed 119 sites stretching across hundreds of miles in China’s Gansu province that have features similar to those at existing nuclear-tipped ballistic missile launch facilities. Many of the sites are hidden by large, dome-like coverings – a practice used by...
