No, not actual nukes, the 100,000 reservoirs the country has. In the CCP's decades-long attempt to hoard water...I mean generate hydro power they have created some 100,000 reservoirs, mostly in central China and in the eastern part of the country. The "official" reason for all of it was flood control and hydro power. But it wasn't until the 3 Gorges system was built that the problems started piling up.
Before ground was even broken a pair of engineers, experts in hydrology and weather/climate warned that the 3 Gorges project would have serious consequences.
They listed 12 significant events that would occur if it was built.
1) More sediment flow in the water
2) Lowered water quality.
3) Littoral landslides
4) Increased numbers and/or increased severity of tremors and earthquakes
5) Heavier, longer lasting rainstorms
6) Bigger, more powerful thunderstorms, including more tornados.
7) Shifting weather patterns ie: places suffering drought would see more rain, some places way too much rain. While other regions that were good for farming would start to dry up and suffer long droughts.
8) Massive flooding
9-10-11) I can't remember what they were now
12) The destruction of the 3 Gorges Dam.
Eleven of the twelve events have and are still happening. Only the 3 Gorges' destruction remains, and it seems inevitable. That one is the biggest "nuclear" bomb of them all. The failure of any one of the other 3 dams upstream of the 3 Gorges Dam will cause it to fail. If it fails, the level of destruction would be along the lines of a multi-nuclear attack. It would flood an unimaginable area of land, killing countless people and causing a major disruption to their military. A lot of the PLA bases, including several nuclear weapons sites and much of the manufacturing segment of their MIC is located in that flood zone.
As it is, when the dams need to release the pressure on them, they tend to do it in the middle of the night with little, if any warning to the downstream communities.
The destruction of the 3 Gorges dam would be so devastating that the CCP stated if it was ever intentionally destroyed by an outside attacker, it would warrant a nuclear response. But ya know what? That's not an unreasonable response considering...
Before ground was even broken a pair of engineers, experts in hydrology and weather/climate warned that the 3 Gorges project would have serious consequences.
They listed 12 significant events that would occur if it was built.
1) More sediment flow in the water
2) Lowered water quality.
3) Littoral landslides
4) Increased numbers and/or increased severity of tremors and earthquakes
5) Heavier, longer lasting rainstorms
6) Bigger, more powerful thunderstorms, including more tornados.
7) Shifting weather patterns ie: places suffering drought would see more rain, some places way too much rain. While other regions that were good for farming would start to dry up and suffer long droughts.
8) Massive flooding
9-10-11) I can't remember what they were now
12) The destruction of the 3 Gorges Dam.
Eleven of the twelve events have and are still happening. Only the 3 Gorges' destruction remains, and it seems inevitable. That one is the biggest "nuclear" bomb of them all. The failure of any one of the other 3 dams upstream of the 3 Gorges Dam will cause it to fail. If it fails, the level of destruction would be along the lines of a multi-nuclear attack. It would flood an unimaginable area of land, killing countless people and causing a major disruption to their military. A lot of the PLA bases, including several nuclear weapons sites and much of the manufacturing segment of their MIC is located in that flood zone.
As it is, when the dams need to release the pressure on them, they tend to do it in the middle of the night with little, if any warning to the downstream communities.
The destruction of the 3 Gorges dam would be so devastating that the CCP stated if it was ever intentionally destroyed by an outside attacker, it would warrant a nuclear response. But ya know what? That's not an unreasonable response considering...