COLD WAR II: China Denies ‘Remarkable’ Expansion of its Nuclear Arsenal, Which Is Laughable. “Last summer, the Pentagon’s annual report on China warned that the country was aiming to build a total of 700 deployable thermonuclear warheads by 2027, and 1,000 warheads by 2030. The report states that China’s pace of warhead construction is so rapid that its previous estimate from 2020 had become obsolete in just one year.”