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When the whole world is struggling with climate change and global recession, China is quietly busy strengthening its nuclear warhead. According to a recent report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China’s nuclear stockpile is now increasing rapidly.
While China had 410 nuclear warheads in 2023, this number will reach 500 in 2024. The most shocking thing is that in just one year, China has added about 100 new nuclear weapons and this pace is not stopping. Preliminary figures for 2025 show that this figure may go even higher.
India will have to make a strategy
This can affect not only Asia but the strategic balance of the entire world. The eyes of America, Russia, India and other nuclear-rich countries have now become even more alert on China’s activities. This is a warning to India that it may have to rethink its security policy and nuclear policy. Although China has publicly reiterated its policy of ‘no first use’ i.e. no first nuclear attack, its rapidly growing nuclear power is making this policy questionable.
China did the first test in the year 1964
China officially started its nuclear weapons program in 1955, which was named ‘Project 596’. It received initial technical help from the Soviet Union. After that, in the year 1964, China successfully conducted its first nuclear test. This test was conducted at a place called Lop Nur and it was a fission based nuclear bomb.
After this successful test, China became the fifth nuclear weapons country in the world. America, Soviet Union, Britain and France were already included in this list. After this, China conducted 45 nuclear tests in Lop Noor from 1964 to 1996 i.e. for 3 decades.
China is building 350 new missile silos
China accelerated development and testing of missile-based nuclear weapons. During this period, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched systems were developed. Although it has signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), it has not yet ratified it.
Since 2020, China has started rapidly increasing its nuclear weapons stockpile. According to SIPRI and the US Defense Department, if growth continues at this pace, China’s number of warheads could exceed 1500 by 2035. The SIPRI report claims that China is building about 350 new missile silos. Either these have been built or are in the construction stage.
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