China’s Nuclear Acceleration Revealed in Satellite Images

China is building out and redesigning sites connected to its nuclear weapons program, according to a new report, as the lapse of the world's last treaty limiting nuclear weapons has fueled fears of a new nuclear arms race.

Several facilities linked to China's nuclear weapons in country's southwest Sichuan province have been refurbished or expanded in the past seven years, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

The only remaining agreement on long-range, highly-destructive nuclear weapons expired earlier this month. New START had put caps on how many strategic nuclear weapons both the U.S. and Russia could have and no fresh deal has replaced it.

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