China's ICBM with 10 warheads supplied by Clinton administration
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I remember when they gave them the technology and the Clinton administration downplayed the threat, but here it is and it is clearly real. Since then Democrats have also tried to kill missile defense. They are making the US less safe at every turn.
China has just tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver up to 10 independently targeted nuclear warheads, using technology given to them on President Clinton's watch to launch communications satellites.There is more.
The Dec. 13 test of the DF-41 was the third for the new weapon. But it marked the first test of a multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle, or MIRV, technology and raises by an order of magnitude the nuclear threat to the U.S. as China continues its massive arms buildup. And disturbingly, the threat is in large part of our own making.
"The DF-4, which could be deployed as early as 2015, may carry up to 10 MIRVs, and have a range as far as 7,456 miles, allowing it to target the entire continental United States," according to the latest report produced for Congress by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
"China could use MIRVs to deliver nuclear warheads on major U.S. cities and military facilities as a means of overwhelming (existing) U.S. ballistic missile defenses," the report added.
We now have 30 ground-based interceptors (GBI) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Fort Greely in Alaska. In March 2013, the Obama administration, which previously scaled back Bush administration plans for GBI deployment in the U.S., reluctantly announced plans for an additional 14 at Greely in response to the threat from North Korea.
China's missile threat has grown with the aid of U.S. technology, some stolen but much provided willingly by a U.S. at times deluded by the notion that making nice with our enemies and trading with them will somehow make them less dangerous.
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I remember when they gave them the technology and the Clinton administration downplayed the threat, but here it is and it is clearly real. Since then Democrats have also tried to kill missile defense. They are making the US less safe at every turn.
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