Jul 31, 2007
Chinese nuclear sub shows up on Google Earth?
Posted by Ole Peter Galaasen in categories: defense, military, nuclear weapons
Increasingly, tools readily available on the Internet enable independent specialists or even members of the general public to do intelligence work that used to be the monopoly of agencies like the CIA, KGB, or MI6. Playing the role of an armchair James Bond, Hans K. Kristensen, a nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in Washington, D.C., recently drew attention to images on Google Earth of Chinese sites. Kristensen believes that the pictures shed light on China’s deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems: one appears to be a new ballistic missile submarine [see above image]; others may capture the replacement of liquid-fueled rockets with solid-fuel rockets at sites in north-central China, within range of ICBM fields in southern Russia.
Source: IEEE Spectrum. An excellent example of how open source intelligence outsmart military intelligence.
See also: Nuclear terrorism: the new day after from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. From the article:
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