Nuclear Future: Rethinking the Nuclear Forces in the Days to Come

... and Yars missiles are deployed in underground missile silos). Largely inspired by the Soviet and Russian school of thought, China, too, is now busy developing its own TEL fleet to address survivability concerns regarding its strategic nuclear forces (SNF). Beijing’s first fully mobile ICBM platform was DF-31A, which first came into service in the late 2000s. A couple of years ago, China also fielded heavier MIRV-armed DF-41 missiles. North Korea has its mobile ICBM program as well, although its systems with large liquid-fuel missiles ...