'Pakistan has more nukes and fissile materials than India'
'Pakistan has more nukes and fissile materials than India'-Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
2 Aug 2010
Pakistan has 70-90 strategic nuclear weapons, as against India's 60-80, according to the latest table of Nuclear Weapons Inventories 2010 released by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
"Both Pakistan and India are increasing their arsenals," it said.
"Neither India nor Pakistan has released official information to the public regarding the size of their nuclear arsenals, said the report 'Global nuclear weapons inventories, 1945-2010' authored by Robert S Norris and Hans M Kristensen.
Russia tops the list with 12,000 warheads followed by the US 9,400, France 300, China 240, UK 225 and Israel, which has not declared itself as a nuclear weapon state has 60 to 80 weapons.
The inventory has warned that Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea have yet not made their nuclear arsenals fully operational.
"The majority of India's and Pakistan's warheads are not yet operationally deployed. Both countries are believed to be increasing their stockpiles," the report said.
"India is estimated to have assembled 60-80 warheads and produced enough fissile material for 60-105 nuclear warheads; Pakistan is estimated to have assembled 70-90 warheads and produced fissile material for as many as 90 warheads," it said.