below_freezing
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Not a question at all. We have far more nukes than China.
US: 570 megatons
China: 294 megatons
NTI: United States - Nuclear Disarmament
NTI: China - Nuclear Disarmament
Reflects different nuclear doctrine. The US uses many small nukes because it always envisioned going on a first strike against a wide area i.e. aganst Soviet Union. China only needs to take out the top 100 US cities by population in a 2nd strike. That is just the "known" program. The US has always been saying how non-transparent and secretive China's nuclear program was. Who knows how many megatons we really have?