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Satellites have spotted China building more than 100 new nuclear missile silos deep in the desert – and it changes the calculations of Mutually Assured Destruction. Researchers from the US Middlebury Institute of International Studies have pinpointed construction work on 119 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos near the remote city of Yumen in China's northwestern Gansu province. "The site itself is enormous — more than 1100 square kilometres," says Jeffrey Lewis, director of the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies. "There are the silos. There are also underground bunkers being built that may function as launch centres, with trenches carrying...
