I’m tied up today, but feeling just a bit less anxious knowing that in the event of a nuclear attack I now have a 24 hour hotline to call for “medical advice and technical support.” China Radio International reports that the hotline was opened recently at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing. As a public service to our readers, we provide the number here: 010-66880120.
I’d memorize that number if I were you since the phone book or your random notes are likely to be incinerated in a nuclear attack. Uh oh, come to think of it the phones will probably be on the fritz as well. Maybe it would be best to call the hotline at the first hint of a nuclear attack just to make sure you get all the info you need ahead of time.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Zhou Tze Ling // Jun 30, 2009 at 11:20 am
The US says the PLA is modernising. Why? The US siop has envisaged attacking China with nuclear weapons in a crisis over Taiwan.Of course the PLA is still outgunned by the US.
But if any US president were to launch
an unprovoked attack on China ,The American public must impeach him and hang him.Of course China is not so defenceless as in the opium war and thirty years ago.
The US may be able to attack but PLA retaliation will leave the US with unacceptable damage.
Therefore I say the PLA must carry on modernising all weapon systems so that the hawks in the Pentagon will nevre think the US is safe from counter attack.
Long live China and the PLA.
2 Greg // Jul 3, 2009 at 2:09 am
Seig Heil!
It took the Pentagon and the Russians 25 years to get China to set up a hotline. The obsession with secrecy as a weapon is a bad idea when WMD are involved.
And China wasn’t defenseless during the Opium War either, China had 400,000 troops. Many Qing generals chose not to defend the emporer and his mother because they were so unpopular.
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