Mark Milley Calls China’s Alleged Nuclear Buildup ‘One of Largest Shifts in Geostrategic Power Ever’

China is estimated to possess between 350 and 400 nuclear warheads, and maintains that these weapons are meant to provide a “minimum deterrent posture,” i.e. enough nukes to respond to aggression by a strategic adversary. The People’s Republic is the only nuclear weapons-armed state in the world with ‘no first use’ restrictions on its weapons.