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China test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for first time in decades (www.bbc.com)

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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.

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@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

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The goal of the doomsday machine is to kill everyone. Thats not a good scientist. That's the military

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The hell is that even supposed to mean?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What part didn't you understand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#The_Doomsday_Machine

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

Literally the entire comment.