Photo: The Long March rocket, shown here carrying a spacecraft, has proved a reliable launch vehicle for the Chinese — thanks to U.S. technology.
China Tests DF-41 Missile Using U.S. Technology -- Investors.com
Defense: 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.
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.
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My Comment: I remember the Clinton administration downplaying this development/threat in the 1990s .... it looks like they were wrong ... correction .... terribly wrong.
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