You have failed to answer my question, you have just said India has more strategic depth to survive in an event of nuclear confrontation, the bottom line is India will turn into a nuclear wasteland with countless deaths, the radiation will spread all over India, so how is India going to recover, India will suffer 10 times more than Pakistan.
This is my post from another thread. Hope it helps
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India will not start a Nuclear War. India's policy is No First use and massive second strike
First make up your minds. Will you use tactical nukes first or use all of your nukes at once. Either way it will result in massive second strike. Using all nukes at once (technically not possible) will be a foolish exercise as it will give you nothing for the second strike
Lets say that Lahore is in danger of being overrun will you try to save Lahore first or say to hell with Lahore we will nuke Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad
Now to those who say we have less nukes than Pakistan the answer is simple. We have less nukes as we require less nukes to target a country with lesser area and population
Just see this Population density map
No need to target yellow areas. Just see the red areas and you can see how a large number of people are concentrated in a relatively smaller area. You can see how many nukes are required to target the red areas
Now the similar map of India
We have a larger population and spread over a larger area. To target this you will need larger number of nukes
Now lets talk numbers
Last pakistan census in 1998 (shows how efficient your govt is that you cant conduct a census for almost 20 years) has just 8 cities with population over a million and if we consider cities with over 500,000 it is 10 cities,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_populous_cities_in_Pakistan
To target these 10 cities nukes needed
Karachi 3-4 Nukes
Lahore 2-3 Nukes
Faisalabad 2-3 Nukes
Rawalpindi 1-2 Nukes
Multan 1-2 Nukes
Hyderabad 1-2 Nukes
Gurjanawala 1 Nuke
Peshawar 1 Nuke
Quetta (No need to target. We need friendly govt in Baluchistan
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Islamabad 1 Nuke
Total 13- 16 nukes lets round it up to 20 nukes
Now compare the same with India
there are 46 cities with a million + population and approx 100 cities if you take population of over 500,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population
It should be obvious to you that you do not have numbers to cover all these cities
Lets talk numbers. Lets say you target only Big Important Cities
Mumbai 6-7 Nukes
Delhi 12-14 Nukes Delhi area is double that of Mumbai
Bangalore 7-8 Nukes
Hyderabad 6-7 Nukes
Ahemdabad 4-5 Nukes
Chennai 4-5 Nukes
Kolkata 4-5 Nukes
Surat 2-3 Nukes
Pune 2-3 Nukes
Jaipur 1-2 Nukes
Lucknow 1-2 Nukes
49-61 Nukes lets round it to 65 nukes
You will be using almost 60% of your arsenal in just trying to target 10-11 Indian cities