This is CBS, Eye on the World.

I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend.

And we're very pleased to welcome at this moment where nuclear weapons are routinely discussed over lunch in Europe.

Peter Husey, the president of Geostrategic analysis, a fellow at the National

Institute for Deterrence Studies.

They're discussed over lunch in Europe, but not at all in China, which is why we're headed

there.

Peter, a very good evening to you, China and nuclear weapons.

We have a report most recently for the Federation of American Scientists with this stark sentence, bold-faced.

The total number of Chinese nuclear warheads is now estimated to include approximately 600 warheads.

The vast majority of these are in storage and a small number, perhaps 24, are deployed.

Is that a good report?

And what does it mean that they are stored their nuclear weapons?

Are those the caves of the West?

Good evening, Peter.

Good evening, John.

And good evening, Gordon.

The number of warheads that attorneys have is probably 600 strategic, meaning long range. But if you look at three or four analysts

like Rick Fisher, who you know and Chris Yaw and Mark Snyder, the Chinese have probably an

equal amount of theater nuclear weapons, which they never talk about. And they're not transparent

at all,

so they don't tell us what they have. So we're guessing. On the other hand, this fictional idea that why would you build submarines if you're sending them to sea without a warhead? It doesn't

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