Beijing said the test was "routine" but analysts say that is odd as the last such test was in 1980.
China has said it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean.
The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and “fell into expected sea areas”, Beijing’s defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was “routine” and part of its “annual training”.
The type of missile and its flight path remained unclear, but Chinese state media said Beijing had “informed the countries concerned in advance”.
Analysts said Beijing’s description of the test as “routine” was surprising because the last such test happened in 1980.
China’s nuclear weapon tests usually take place domestically and it previously test-fired ICBMs west into the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region.
@DarkThoughts We’ll have a global warming, and then we nuke each other so we can compensate with a nuclear winter. Who said climate denialists don’t have the big brain in here?
Social unrest, aka crime gangs ruling the streets and all social services being effectively dead vs a nuclear blast that has a good chance of near instantly vaporizing me.
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I take it over the slow cooking of the climate caused social collapse that we’re heading towards at full speed.
@DarkThoughts We’ll have a global warming, and then we nuke each other so we can compensate with a nuclear winter. Who said climate denialists don’t have the big brain in here?
@0x815
There’s a good chance that nuclear winter isn’t actually a thing and was just fear mongering by scientists in order to de-escalate the cold war.
The goal of the doomsday machine is to kill everyone. Thats not a good scientist. That’s the military
The hell is that even supposed to mean?
What part didn’t you understand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#The_Doomsday_Machine
Literally the entire comment.
Slow?
Social unrest, aka crime gangs ruling the streets and all social services being effectively dead vs a nuclear blast that has a good chance of near instantly vaporizing me.