China is building more than 100 missile silos in a remote desert, analysis of satellite imagery suggests.
US researchers, from the James Martin Centre for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said they discovered the site while studying satellite photos.
The study s findings, first reported by the Washington Post, identified 119 missile silos, likely to hold intercontinental ballistic missiles, being built in the desert of Gansu province.
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A commercial satellite photo taken over northwestern China shows what experts say is a construction site for a new silo for a nuclear-tipped ICBM. The construction site is hidden under a deep cover, a common concealment practice observed at other Chinese missile sites. (Planet/Center for Nonproliferation Studies)(Supplied)
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