India expanding nuclear arsenal: U.S.

[desimorty]

Any proof?or is this one of those "we have no proof, but we can do it". Like India has no ASAT missile. But we have it. We just don't want to send someone to the moon, but we have that capability...

Source: India expanding nuclear arsenal: U.S.

No but if you read the work by Stephen Cohen you''ll realize the reason for Indias test in 1998 were designed for the trigger or was it button? Which basically is the hardest part in designing a nuclear bomb expecially today with computer triggers, so the trigger is more accurate.
Technical science aside, basically the Indians have Thermo and Fusion bombs or any other nuclear bomb that can be built using this trigger. Trick is to make it accurate for which the Indians atleast for now are comfortable they achieved.
Hence even why US, Russia, China all stopped nuke tests around the time of micro computers exception I think was france?
This all aside, argueing yeild or type of nuclear bomb is usless when dealing with a threat of a nuclear war!
1 nuke is enough which is why India and China do no have many compared to US or Russia nore does India or China intend to have as many. Fact Russia, and America now both regret their large nuclear arsenal.
They are unusable weapons, because once they are used, logic and reason go out the window, hence this world order.
Also India does like China have limited ASAT capability but not like what the US has with its missile shield AEGIS etc.
Problem with shooting down satieletes is that sometimes they are too far away or moving too fast and in space these things are huge in proportion hence why the Americans, RUssians or Europeans and Indians are not concerned about shooting down enemy sats. Space wars are yet to be clearly defined as well. Chinas ASAT test was nothing but a test. Most likily for a BMD shield. Like wise India skipped step like shooting a sat whose tragectory is known. Do some research on Indias BMD program.

 

[BABA AGHORI]

U.S.A should not allow india to increase nuclear weapon. Hope they take up this matter in U.N.

Why dude ? is marde momin scared ?

 

[Hindustani78]

India need to build more bombs as it have not mastered the hydrogen bomb technology yet. It still only have Hiroshima capable bombs.

Here this is more about Civilian Nuclear programme.

India’s liability law will clearly impose a financial burden on nuclear suppliers as they will need to factor in supplementary safeguards and protective systems into their plants as also contribute towards the ‘nuclear pool’. Evidently, to recoup their outgoings, they will need to charge more for their plants.

Indigenous reactors are already reflecting this cost increase. The approved cost of the first two of the four 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) being built, and to be completed by 2020-21, at Gorakhpur in Haryana is Rs 20,594 crore ($3.35 billion), while that of units 5 and 6 at Kaiga in Karnataka, construction on which will begin in December 2016, is Rs 22,000 crore ($3.58 billion). In comparison, the earlier planned units 7 and 8 at Rawatbhatta in Rajasthan, scheduled for commissioning in June and December 2016, are being built at a cost of Rs 12,320 crore ($2 billion), and units 3 and 4 at Kakrapar in Gujarat, to be commissioned in June and December 2015, cost Rs 11,459 crore ($1.87 billion).

Even with this approximately 80 per cent inflation, Indian reactors are highly cost competitive and suit Indian needs. While an Indian-made two 700 MW-unit plant, that is, of 1,400 MW, is priced at around $3.5 billion, the cost of the US’s first nuclear project in over three decades – the two 1,117 MW AP1000 units 3 and 4 of Westinghouse at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia – has spiralled from $14 billion to $16.2 billion. In proportion, at 2,234 MW, Indian PHWRs would cost $5.59 billion, almost a third of the AP1000. GEH’s 1,520 MW ESBWR being built for Unistar, a consortium of Constellation Energy and Electricite de France, at Bell Band, Pennsylvania, is estimated to cost $9.6 billion.

The Indian government opted for GEH’s ESBWR, though the reactor is as yet untried and untested, having secured sanction for commercialising only in September 2014 when its design was approved by the NRC. Also, not a single AP1000 of Westinghouse is in commercial operation, though eight are under construction, two each at the Vogtle and V.C. Summer sites in the US and at the Sanmen and Haiyang sites in China. Cost escalation at Vogtle has, however, been driven by delays of about 20 months that has led to a $900 million lawsuit being filed by Westinghouse and Vogtle co-owner Georgia Power against each other, the latter citing deficiencies in design and poor execution for the cost overrun and delays. In 2013, Duke Energy cancelled its contract to Westinghouse for two AP1000 reactors and the matter ended up in court after project costs skyrocketed from $10 billion to $24 billion and original in-service dates were delayed by eight years.



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