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...government is hiding the truth," says Silo-X's advertisement. "A major missile warhead meltdown...radiation contamination imminent...murderous mutant crew members on the prowl...
China has been eager to market M-11s, tactical ballistic missiles that can carry a 1,100-lb. warhead more than 185 miles. But the Bush and Clinton Administrations slapped trade sanctions on China in 1991 and 1993 for sending M-11 components to Pakistan. The penalties were lifted in 1994, after Beijing promised to abide by an international agreement prohibiting countries from selling rockets with the range of the M-11 that could be fitted with a nuclear warhead...
...that it had arrested a colonel in the SRF who had been collecting classified information on the missile forces and was planning to try to sell it to someone at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. The next such officer might be willing to sell not just secrets but a warhead--or the plutonium to make one. "The missile forces must be fed," says Robert Bykov, a retired colonel of the SRF. "If those who guard Russia's nuclear weapons go hungry, we might face some terrifying consequences...
...confirmed, that China was trying to buy technology, and possibly parts, of the SS-18 missiles built in Ukraine and deployed in the former Soviet Union. China has already deployed a few icbms, but Washington takes a dim view of China's acquiring technology from the huge, accurate, 10-warhead SS-18, the most threatening weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal. "We believe that would be a big mistake," Perry told reporters, "and have so represented our position to the Russian government and the Ukrainian government." Protests to Beijing on this score, he added, were "more general." Leonard Spector...
...some topflight help in designing the plant so it would be virtually impregnable. CIA clandestine officers suspected that he had got hold of blueprints the former Soviet Union used to build its large network of underground bomb shelters during the cold war. Only a direct hit by a nuclear warhead on top of the mountain could take out the plant. Sneaking a conventional bomb through the front door would be impossible, and a precision-guided projectile fired from an attack jet or a cruise missile could never be programmed to twist and turn its way into the mountain's entrance...