[Infowarrior] - Georgetown students shed light on China's tunnel system for nuclear weapons

[Richard Forno]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Joe C
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/georgetown-students-shed-light-on-chinas-tunnel-system-for-nuclear-weapons/2011/11/16/gIQA6AmKAO_print.html
> 
> Georgetown students shed light on China's tunnel system for nuclear weapons
> By William Wan, Tuesday, November 29, 8:30 PM
> 
> The Chinese have called it their ?Underground Great Wall? ? a vast network
> of tunnels designed to hide their country?s increasingly sophisticated
> missile and nuclear arsenal.
> 
> For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at
> Georgetown University has called it something else: homework.
> 
> Led by their hard-charging professor, a former top Pentagon official, they
> have translated hundreds of documents, combed through satellite imagery,
> obtained restricted Chinese military documents and waded through hundreds
> of gigabytes of online data.
> 
> The result of their effort? The largest body of public knowledge about
> thousands of miles of tunnels dug by the Second Artillery Corps, a
> secretive branch of the Chinese military in charge of protecting and
> deploying its ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.
> 



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