{"id":148884,"date":"2026-03-31T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148884"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:08:14","slug":"japan-has-enough-plutonium-to-make-5500-nuclear-warheads-pla-daily-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148884","title":{"rendered":"Japan has enough plutonium to make 5,500 nuclear warheads, PLA Daily says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s military mouthpiece accused Japan of \u201cdangerously expanding\u201d its defence industry \u2013 in capacity, technology and international engagement \u2013 and said it had \u201ccrossed the red line\u201d.<br \/>\nIn a rare full-page report on Monday, PLA Daily claimed Japan possessed an \u201castonishing\u201d stockpile of nuclear materials and that it had the technology to produce nuclear weapons.<br \/>\nIt said 44.4 tonnes of plutonium had already been separated by the end of 2024 \u2013 enough to make about 5,500 nuclear warheads.<br \/>\nThe&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3348518\/japan-has-enough-plutonium-make-5500-nuclear-warheads-pla-daily-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s military mouthpiece accused Japan of \u201cdangerously expanding\u201d its defence industry \u2013 in capacity, technology and international engagement \u2013 and said it had \u201ccrossed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}