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

submitted 1 week ago by 0x815 to c/news@beehaw.org

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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 4 points 1 week ago (13 children)

@0x815 Since when and why did the world become such a dangerous place again? I hate to be this pessimistic, but it looks like we won't stop until we will start nuking each other smh...

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It was always this dangerous.

You just hear about it at an increased rate and with more fluff thanks to click hungry internet media.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 week ago

@Faydaikin Eh, there were some efforts in the '90s-2010s to make things less dangerous, but it now seems that everyone moved away from these smh

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