{"id":63775,"date":"2023-02-07T18:51:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/02\/07\/china-surpasses-us-in-number-of-icbm-launchers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:50:50","slug":"china-surpasses-us-in-number-of-icbm-launchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2023\/02\/07\/china-surpasses-us-in-number-of-icbm-launchers\/","title":{"rendered":"China surpasses US in number of ICBM launchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 China now has more Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launchers than the U.S. according to <a href=\"https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/sites\/republicans.armedservices.house.gov\/files\/HASC%20Response%20-%20China%20ICBM%20Notification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a congressional notification from U.S. Strategic Command<\/a>, or STRATCOM, which oversees the nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The notification highlights China\u2019s rapid advancements in its nuclear modernization program in recent years and has prompted congressional Republicans to call for \u201chigher numbers and new capabilities\u201d in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is not an understatement to say that the Chinese nuclear modernization program is advancing faster than most believed possible,\u201d Republican leaders on the congressional Armed Services Committee and strategic forces panels said in a joint statement. \u201cWe have no time to waste in adjusting our nuclear force posture to deter both Russia and China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., who issued the statement alongside Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/12\/05\/how-a-republican-majority-in-the-house-will-affect-defense-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">singled out U.S. nuclear modernization to deter China, Russia and North Korea as one of his priorities for this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, cautioned that ICBM launchers are only one metric in measuring nuclear expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to understand the issue in a little bit more detail before we figure out how to respond to it,\u201d Smith told Defense News. \u201cLaunchers are one thing. The nuclear enterprise involves a lot more than just launchers. So, I think we need a more total vision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STRATCOM is required to notify Congress if China surpasses the U.S. in certain elements of its nuclear program, including the number of ICBM launchers. It provided Congress with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/12\/07\/china-may-have-surpassed-us-in-number-of-nuclear-warheads-on-icbms\/\" target=\"_blank\">a classified notification in November, prompting pushback from Republicans<\/a> who noted that the law requires an unclassified notification as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unclassified STRATCOM notice did not disclose how many launchers China possesses while noting it provided Congress with additional classified updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has 450 ICBM launchers. The Pentagon\u2019s 2022 China military power report noted that Beijing had approximately 300 ICBMs with the caveat that it \u201cappears to be doubling the numbers of launchers in some ICBM units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also found that China\u2019s warhead stockpile has surpassed 400 and projected that \u201cit will likely field a stockpile of about 1,500 warheads by its 2035 timeline\u201d if it continues its current rate of nuclear expansion. The U.S. stockpile contained 3,750 nuclear warheads as of 2021, including 1,515 deployed warheads on ICBM launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers and heavy bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Making weapons quickly, cheaply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henry Sokolski, the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, advised against going \u201ctit-for-tat, ICBM-for-ICBM with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the aim is to compete with China, you want to do so in a leveraged way where you can prevail,\u201d Sokolski told Defense News. \u201cBeijing can now make far more nuclear weapons systems far more quickly, and far more cheaply, than we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis means we\u2019re going to have to compete harder where we still have comparative advantages \u2013 such as in space \u2013 to potentially deprive China of its ability to command and 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