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Badger52
12-01-2011, 05:54
Georgetown students shed light on China's tunnel system for nuclear weapons

Complete story HERE. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/georgetown-students-shed-light-on-chinas-tunnel-system-for-nuclear-weapons/2011/11/16/gIQA6AmKAO_story.html) (Requires free registration to get complete story.)

Extracts from WaPo piece:

Another source of insight was a pair of semi-fictionalized TV series chronicling the lives of Second Artillery soldiers.

The plots were often overwrought with melodrama - one series centers on a brigade commander who struggles to whip his slipshod unit into shape while juggling relationship problems with his glamorous Olympic-swim-coach girlfriend. But they also included surprisingly accurate depictions of artillery units' procedures that lined up perfectly with the military manual and other documents.

"Until someone showed us on screen how exactly these missile deployments were done from the tunnels, we only had disparate pieces. The TV shows gave us the big picture of how it all worked together,"

An interesting accompanying graphic is located HERE. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/evidence-of-chinas-nuclear-storage-system/2011/11/29/gIQAR2GUAO_graphic.html)