Satellite images show China is building nuke launch pads and bunkers

A satellite showing one of the huge octagon structures at the heart of China’s military network in Xinjiang province (Picture: Reuters)

China is building dozens of launch pads for nuclear missiles, new satellite images show.

More than 80 pads have already been constructed in the middle of the desert in Xinjiang autonomous province, home to the Uyghur muslim community.

The new infrastructure has been built in the past six years within 150 kilometres of the Hami nuclear silo fields which house China’s longest...