India expanding nuclear weapon facility, US thinktank claims

[Omega007]

Count 90–110 & The weapon yield remains uncertain, with estimates of up to 8kt/unit. But they are debatable.

How do you know they are 8kt/piece??Stop spreading lies moron.

Count 90–110 & The weapon yield remains uncertain, with estimates of up to 8kt/unit. But they are debatable.

 

[OrionHunter]

India should also think about removing its shitty no first use policy

We're not mad to be the first to use nukes. But according to our nuclear doctrine, if attacked, retaliation would be massive - from land, air and sea.

 

[India_rocks]

We're not mad to be the first to use nukes. But according to our nuclear doctrine, if attacked, retaliation would be massive - from land, air and sea.

That policy is no good for us.

I know we have massive retaliation capabilities but at the stage of war, the damage would have been done. We need to get rid of this no first use policy.

Pakistan & China both are nuclear capable and both don't have such defensive policies, India needs to get aggressive with its foreign policies.

Bro am i not right here?

 

[Dash]

What? I thought Indians were good in keeping these kinda activities secret while everyone else is tomtoming about their nuclear capabilities to the whole wide world. How did this happen?

It is still a secret bro, no one knows how many warhead India has..just an assumption by the anti India lobby.

 

[IND151]

A US-based thinktank has claimed that India is expanding its ability to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including more powerful nuclear weapons, citing satellite imagery of an under construction gas centrifuge facility near Mysore.

In their latest report, David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said that India appeared to be finishing construction of what appears to be a second gas centrifuge facility at the Rare Materials Plant (RMP) near Mysore in Karnataka.

The report said that India is also in the early stages of building a larger unsafe guarded centrifuge complex, the Special Material Enrichment Facility (SMEF).

Noting that India's enrichment plants are not under international safeguards or committed to peaceful uses, the report said the governments and suppliers of nuclear and nuclear related dual use goods throughout the world should be vigilant to prevent efforts by Indian trading and manufacturing companies to acquire such goods for the new centrifuge complex in Karnataka as well as for the RMP.

ISIS had earlier lobbied against the India-US civic nuclear deal.

ISIS said April 2013 high resolution commercial imagery shows that the previous year witnessed further progress at India's RMP. The building containing the suspected new enrichment facility appears externally to be nearly complete.

The report said that if it is a new facility, in addition to one that India built in 2010, the country could have more than doubled its enrichment capacity.

"Whether the plant is near operation cannot be determined from the image. The construction of other buildings appears externally complete as well, and the two storage areas seem to have developed further. Other buildings show signs of continued construction.

"The construction of two new buildings seems to be complete, while other surrounding construction continues. The construction staging area continues to be present," it said.

India expanding nuclear weapon facility, US thinktank claims - The Times of India

Thanks for info

 

[Dash]

That policy is no good for us.

I know we have massive retaliation capabilities but at the stage of war, the damage would have been done. We need to get rid of this no first use policy.

Pakistan & China both are nuclear capable and both don't have such defensive policies, India needs to get aggressive with its foreign policies.

Bro am i not right here?

China also has no first use policy. Its only pakistan which has this policy as anyother policy wont work for them.

And no first use policy is the best policy.

 

[indoPunjabi]

Isn't it obvious we need more nukes for our nuclear submarine and agni series of missiles. Guess US think tank is the last one to realize that

 

[SrNair]

A US-based thinktank has claimed that India is expanding its ability to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including more powerful nuclear weapons, citing satellite imagery of an under construction gas centrifuge facility near Mysore.

In their latest report, David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said that India appeared to be finishing construction of what appears to be a second gas centrifuge facility at the Rare Materials Plant (RMP) near Mysore in Karnataka.

The report said that India is also in the early stages of building a larger unsafe guarded centrifuge complex, the Special Material Enrichment Facility (SMEF).

Noting that India's enrichment plants are not under international safeguards or committed to peaceful uses, the report said the governments and suppliers of nuclear and nuclear related dual use goods throughout the world should be vigilant to prevent efforts by Indian trading and manufacturing companies to acquire such goods for the new centrifuge complex in Karnataka as well as for the RMP.

ISIS had earlier lobbied against the India-US civic nuclear deal.

ISIS said April 2013 high resolution commercial imagery shows that the previous year witnessed further progress at India's RMP. The building containing the suspected new enrichment facility appears externally to be nearly complete.

The report said that if it is a new facility, in addition to one that India built in 2010, the country could have more than doubled its enrichment capacity.

"Whether the plant is near operation cannot be determined from the image. The construction of other buildings appears externally complete as well, and the two storage areas seem to have developed further. Other buildings show signs of continued construction.

"The construction of two new buildings seems to be complete, while other surrounding construction continues. The construction staging area continues to be present," it said.

India expanding nuclear weapon facility, US thinktank claims - The Times of India

Someone must told to this ISIS that Indian is not a country like north korea.India is already an established power ,west countries can take it or leave it.

 

[kseeker]

How do you know they are 8kt/piece??Stop spreading lies moron.

I usually refrain from abusing my countrymen however, fcuking idiots like you deserve some good words.

Do some research before writing mooncalf.

Smiling Buddha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[akand bharat]

This All bull shit!!! Firstly if you believe what this Think tank Is saying Right That

I usually refrain from abusing my countrymen however, fcuking idiots like you deserve some good words.

Do some research before writing mooncalf.

Smiling Buddha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was 58 kt claimed by BARC
Pokhran-II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[kseeker]

This All bull shit!!! Firstly if you believe what this Think tank Is saying Right That

It was 58 kt claimed by BARC
Pokhran-II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are different figures all over and no one has confirmed. That's why I mentioned in my first post that, it's debatable. It might even be possible that, officials are hiding the actual figures. Actual yield/warhead could be more than 58kt. We never know.

India: Non-NPT State with Nuclear Weapons

Estimated Arsenal Size

• Between 90 and 110 warheads in total inventory, though only a portion are believed to be deliverable. [1]
• It is disputed whether India has developed thermonuclear weapons. [2]

Key Delivery Systems

• Indian nuclear deterrence relies principally on gravity bombs delivered by the Mirage 2000H (Vajra), the Jaguar IS Shamsher and/or the Sukhoi Su-30. [3] Discussions between India and France began in 2012 over the Indian purchase of 126 nuclear-capable Rafale jets, with a tentative delivery date of 2016-2017. [4]
• Some land-based ballistic missiles are nuclear-capable, including the fully-operational Prithvi I (P-I), the Agni-1 SRBMs and the Agni-2 MRBM. [5] The Agni-3 and Agni-4 both have ranges up to 3,500km, and the long-range (up to 5,000km) Agni-5 ICBM was tested for the first time in April 2012. [6] In February 2013, India disclosed that development had begun on the Agni-6, a long range nuclear-capable missile with MIRV capabilities (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle). [7]
• The Indian navy is working to integrate its two Arihant-class nuclear-powered submarines, equipped with the nuclear-capable Sagarika (K-15) submarine-launched ballistic missile, into the fleet, and expects to have a "modest sea-based deterrence" by 2016. [8] The Arihant is a key element in India's aspiration to possess a "nuclear triad" of land, air, and sea based forces; its reactor is expected to go critical sometime in the summer of 2013. [9] The Dhanush ship-based missile had two successful test firings in March 2011 and October 2012; it is currently operational. [10]
• No information is available about non-strategic weapons.

Estimated Destructive Power

• Yield range of weapons: below 15 kt - 20 kt. [11]
• Total yield: 1 Mt [12]
• Indian officials claim to have had a successful thermonuclear bomb test in May 1998 with a yield of 43-60 kt, while most scholars estimate this figure to have been lower, some concluding that the two-stage device was a failure. [13]

Estimated Military Fissile Material Stockpiles

• All Indian nuclear weapons are believed to be plutonium based. [14]
• Weapons grade plutonium: estimated 0.54 ± 0.18 tons. [15]
• HEU stockpile: 2.4 ± 0.9 tons. The HEU is enriched to only 30% to 45% U-235 (much less than weapons grade) and is believed to be used for nuclear submarine propulsion. [16]

Disarmament and Commitments to Reduce Arsenal Size

• Opposed to signing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which it views as discriminatory. [17]
• Has long stated that it desires a world free of nuclear weapons, but has developed weapons to be on equal standing with other world powers. [18] The 1999 Draft Nuclear Doctrine asserted that "global, verifiable, and non-discriminatory nuclear disarmament is a national security objective." [19]

Future Commitments

• In support of a non-discriminatory, universal, and verifiable Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT). Does not want the treaty to cover existing stockpiles. [20]

Nuclear Weapons Related Policies

Nuclear Testing Policy

• Has observed nuclear testing moratorium since May 1998. [21]
• Party to the Partial Test Ban Treaty (banning atmospheric, outer space, and underwater testing). [22]
• India has not signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Along with theNon-Aligned Movement (NAM), India is a strong advocate for a time-bound disarmamentcommitment from NWS and may use the lack of a commitment as a reason to refrain from signing the CTBT. [23]

Use of Nuclear Weapons

• Pledges not to be first to use nuclear weapons. Retaliation-only policy, based on a credible minimum deterrent. [24]

Source: Nuclear Disarmament India | Articles | NTI Analysis | NTI

 

[akand bharat]

There are different figures all over and no one has confirmed. That's why I mentioned in my first post that, it's debatable. It might even be possible that, officials are hiding the actual figures. Actual yield/warhead could be more than 58kt. We never know.

Actual Impact Is classified Itself As whole Project Is Secret From the Known world The nuclear yields still remains highly debatable among international scholars and the Indian science community.[3 Calculating the exact yields are very difficult even in the control environment. The question of politicising the yields made the matter even more complicated and disputed the numbers of the nuclear yields. On 11 May, the yields from the three tests were put at 58 kilotons by the BARC data obtained at the site 3 km from the test shafts. The BARC officials described the tests as a "complete success, and it was determined that all the devices and their components had performed flawlessly." To remove all doubts, the senior scientists, including Abdul Kalam and R. Chidambaram, involved in the Pokhran operations addressed the press on 17 May.

It is disputed whether India has developed thermonuclear weapons. [2]

They also claimed that the thermonuclear device gave a total yield of 45kt; the 15kt force was generated from the fission trigger and 30kt from the fusion process and that the theoretical yield of the device (200 kt) was reduced to 45 kt to minimise seismic damage to villages near the test range.[8] The village closest to the test range, Khetolai, was a mere 5 kilometres away. Neutral assessment by western scholars estimates that Shakti-I was between 29–35 kt, and Shakti-2 was 12kt.

As From Criticism of West on Max Yield. In My Opinion It Was Just There Frustrations As Too Shadow there Failure To gather Intelligence Regarding Indian Nuclear Tests It was Aspected from Them of their prejudice to not accept A third World country As nuclear Power

 

[acid rain]

Nukes are not rocket science, thermonuclear warheads are crude devices compared to today's complex tech - the only limitation lies in the inability in physically testing and validatingg, procuring high grade fissile material and designing delivery systems, miniaturising and MIRVing them successfully.

 

[Echo_419]

Isn't it obvious we need more nukes for our nuclear submarine and agni series of missiles. Guess US think tank is the last one to realize that

Yeh amreeki apne kam se kam kyu nahi rakte
India is an established nuclear power
If they have a problem they can kiss my Arse

 

[kseeker]

As From Criticism of West on Max Yield. In My Opinion It Was Just There Frustrations As Too Shadow there Failure To gather Intelligence Regarding Indian Nuclear Tests It was Aspected from Them of their prejudice to not accept A third World country As nuclear Power

This makes perfect sense

Nukes are not rocket science,

What ?

Nuclear technology is much much complex than rocket science in the first place. If at all it wasn't, even countries like, Srilanka, Bangladesh would have got Nukes and would be threatening India by now It's an irony that, Pakis got nukes with the help of their all weather, greater than mountain, deeper than ocean friend Chinis