Dillinger
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Even if India possess nuke, it is the delivery of the nuke that matters.
There are mainly to two to do it; missiles or airdrops.
In order to be delivered by missiles, the nuke has to miniaturized. India has no tech to achieve that.
Airdrops are too risky and slow.
So to say India has no nuke is pretty accurate.
Yes, that is why the payload parameters were keyed in when a BM was developed. Pray tell, do you think an SSBN is being sent out for HATS for show? Miniaturization is not the difficult issue, validation of physics package is. Depending upon the design of the bomb (boosted fission, implosion, thermonuclear) the physics package, boosting mechanism (tritium preferably for a TMN), triggering are validated- after which they are immensely scalable- albeit a 200Kt+ TMN for MIRVs will require a prolate primary which is out of our reach atm. The warheads are sufficiently miniaturized to be carried by the current arsenal of BMs in our inventory.