Chinese researchers put data link hardware to the doomsday test: paper | South China Morning Post

Engineers push communications equipment to the limit to see if it could survive a nuclear attack

A rigorous test to examine the ability of nuclear-proof data link communications equipment to survive a nuclear attack has been completed in China, according to engineers involved in the project.

Equipment was pushed well beyond the limits of existing military standards in the test, they said.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, China, France, Russia and Britain – which possess the most nuclear weapons, have all recently conducted tests of strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Beijing has pledged not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This means China’s retaliating forces need to survive the first wave of any attack.