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Why the Experts Missed China’s Nuclear Expansion

Thinking the Unthinkable with Ankit Panda
Decker Eveleth and Ankit Panda
May 22, 2026

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Episode Notes:

In 2021, while still a senior in college, Decker Eveleth identified China's massive missile silo construction program through open-source imagery, upending decades of assumptions about Chinese nuclear strategy. He joins Ankit to discuss how he found the silos, why so many experts failed to see it coming, and what it means for U.S. strategy today.

Image: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons