Biden submitted the 2022 fiscal year budget to the US Congress on the 28th, and the most noteworthy thing is that the Pentagon has spent $27.7 billion to update the "nuclear strike" force, which has attracted the attention of peace-loving people in the world. In fact, this focus is on China! In this regard, Hu Xijin once again called on the state to increase the reserve of nuclear warheads, but some people said with concern that we must not fall into the mud pit of the "nuclear weapons competition" like the former Soviet Union.
Undoubtedly, this is a grand strategy that has a bearing on the survival and development of the Chinese nation for thousands of generations, and it should not be taken lightly. The author believes that increasing the reserve of nuclear warheads is a positive direction of thinking, and the so-called not to fall into the mud pit of "nuclear weapons competition" seems to be well thought-out, but in fact, it is afraid and weak, even if the white flag is automatically raised, it cannot stop others from strengthening their nuclear superiority.
The author thinks:
1) Biden is not a covert nuclear weapons renewal program but a large-scale investment of resources, which is itself a "nuclear blackmail" against China, Russia and the world, and any coercion can only make the US treacherous plan succeed and it will not automatically cancel this plan. What we have to do is first of all to show the strong will of "not believing in evil" that we have always had. In 1946, after the United States released the atomic bomb on Japan, Mao Zedong told the American female journalist Strong: "The atomic bomb is a paper tiger used by the American reactionaries to scare people." After China's reform and opening up, General Zhu Chenghu said that once the United States wants China to fight a nuclear war, China is prepared to lose the big cities east of Xi'an, but the United States must also prepare for hundreds of cities to be destroyed by China.
2. There is a proper and objective evaluation of the development of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union, which does require a lot of their resources, but there is also considerable consensus on the view that the "nuclear terror balance" avoids a new world war. After decades of development, China has long had a mature and precise nuclear weapons policy. Acting according to one's ability and advancing with the times should be the basic principle. In October 1964, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, and in 1965 Mao Zedong told the visiting Marshal Montgomery: "We use very little money to conduct experiments, we do not have a strong economic foundation." On June 17, 1967, China's first hydrogen bomb with the first "Yumin structure" was successfully tested.
3. Because of the "Yumin structure", China's hydrogen bomb storage has advantages that the United States and Russia do not have. However, the author agrees with President Hu's view that the reserve of nuclear warheads should be appropriately increased. Nuclear warheads themselves are deterrents, and the superposition of China's hydrogen warheads plus the nuclear equivalents of other types of nuclear bombs must be maintained at a deterrent level.
4. Because China has promised not to use nuclear weapons first, it requires a certain defensive capability to reduce losses, and it also requires a first-time, foolproof "nuclear counterattack" capability.
The U.S. military plans to comprehensively renew the "Trinity" nuclear arsenal of land, sea and air in 25 years. In terms of sea-based nuclear weapons, the United States not only has to update the W76-1 submarine-launched nuclear warhead for the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile, develop a new W76-2 nuclear warhead, and promote the latest modification plan of another W88 nuclear warhead. In terms of space-based nuclear weapons, the United States will develop and produce B61-12 nuclear warheads, which can be mounted on B-2, B-21 bombers and F-15, F-16, F-35 fighter jets. In terms of land-based nuclear weapons, the new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles will use newer W78 nuclear warheads, and plans to develop new nuclear warheads that replace the W78's BM-y and BM-Z.
Undoubtedly, China's "second strike" is also a "trinity" of land, sea and air, plus an information system in space. The United States should understand that it is absolutely unable to escape China's retaliatory nuclear strike.
Not long ago, during the consideration of the draft defense budget for this fiscal year, Admiral Charles Richard, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, who oversees the U.S. nuclear arsenal, said at a congressional hearing that China and Russia are modernizing nuclear weapons faster than the United States. If the U.S. does not begin to invest more in nuclear defense and infrastructure, "there is a risk of losing credibility in the eyes of adversaries." Although China's nuclear arsenals are far smaller than those of the United States and Russia, it is experiencing "unprecedented expansion." China's nuclear capabilities have been modernized so quickly that "the United States has found itself now ignorant of China for no more than a week." Richard also said China has shifted some of its nuclear forces to a "fire at warning" state and is employing a limited "high alert duty" strategy, meaning the Chinese side can prepare to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike once it detects an incoming threat. In response to Richard's remarks, CNN reported that the Biden administration is currently conducting a nuclear posture review to make a huge investment in a nuclear weapons modernization program.
As you can see, the United States must now do everything to talk about this, so shouldn't we also talk about the United States and treat its body in the same way as a human being?
The American elite is now anxious, even crazy, and may do everything to stop China's development. Therefore, they need to understand that nuclear deterrence is not one-sided, and that the "nuclear balance" still exists, and only then will they be jealous and restrained.