China could be building its second-largest nuclear missile silo field near Hami in eastern Xinjiang, a new report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) suggests

A new report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) shows that China could be building its second-largest nuclear missile silo field near Hami in eastern Xinjiang. Although the work on this site began recently, based on commercial satellite imagery, FAS estimates that the facility could “eventually include approximately 110 silos”. This comes in the backdrop of a June 30 report from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies which showed the first new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silo field at Yumen in Gansu province could have 120 under-construction silos.