Pakistan's nuke arsenal bigger than India's

[Brotherhood]

http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/database/nukestab.html

 

[kak1978]

Mods : Heading of this thread it self is wrong.

Pakistan to overtake India in nuclear power, rather heading should have been

" Pakistan to overtake India in nuclear War heads"

or else we will confuse it with electricity.

My Congratulations to pakistan on overtaking India on the number of nuclear warheads.

Exactly, even I was thinking "Electricity" when I clicked the title. I thought that should relieve some of the load shedding problems.
So what is the rationale behind having more nuclear warheads, you can't sell them, you can't lend them. If you want to use them i guess you don't need more than a couple to achive your objectives?

 

[Super Falcon]

we already have overtaken them in tech in number we are close to them

 

[mughaljee]

I red this article, and one theory could be behind this,
that,
He wants to gain more western sympathy / weapon's treaty by crying this, that
Oh Lords see, Pakistan is ahead help us , help us ets.

 

[thunder rules]

according to some reports india has around 50-80 warhead on the other hand pakistan has 60-90 warheads.

 

[MZUBAIR]

There wouldnt be a big difference bwteen PAK & India Nuke arsenal...
Even one nuke can burn the subcontinent.
But yes Pakistan have batter quality nuke weapons along with multiple launching platforms.

 

[Comet]

I thought we are going to generate more Electricity from Nuclear Power as compared to India.

 

[Nihat]

nice , nice - more warheads of the nuke variety in the world.

Now, how about everyone generate more electricity with Uranium to get over the power crisis.

 

[sab]

we already have overtaken them in tech in number we are close to them

Explain the tech part a bit please..........

 

[Hyde]

Pakistan's nuke arsenal bigger than India: report​

Updated at: 0905 PST, Friday, June 04, 2010
Pakistan STOCKHOLM: A series of recent estimates by international nuclear watchdogs and reputed think tanks hold that Pakistan has a total of 70 to 90 warheads compared to India's 60 to 80. China, in comparison, has around 240 warheads.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Pakistan's weapons-grade plutonium production would jump seven-fold with the two new reactors at Khushab nearing completion.

"Our conservative estimates are that Pakistan has 60 warheads and could produce 100 nuclear weapons at short notice," said SIPRI, adding that Islamabad had earmarked its US-supplied F-16 fighters, Ghaznavi and Shaheen missiles as its nuke delivery systems.

India's nuclear weapons programme, in turn, has largely been plutonium-based, basically centred around the Pu-239 produced in research reactors like Cirus and Dhruva at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

Nuclear arsenals of India, Pakistan, and even China, pale in comparison to the gigantic ones of the two former Cold War foes, US and Russia. SIPRI estimates there are whopping 22,600 active, inactive and stored nuclear warheads around the globe, enough to destroy it several times over.

While Russia has 12,000 warheads, 4,630 of them "deployed" ones, US has 9,600, which includes 2,468 of them operational. The two have, however, recently decided to slash their inventories by nearly one-third.

France comes third with 300, followed by UK with 225. Israel, which like India and Pakistan is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, completes the list of the eight countries with nuclear weapons, with an arsenal of 80 warheads. Then, there is also North Korea, which has produced "enough plutonium for a small number of warheads", SIPRI said.

 

[jha]

getting more nuclear warheads will only put a strain on economy..i'll be happy if india does not start inducting more nukes...if god forbid need arises then one is enough who needs 100..

 

[Schindler]

Thread headline must be a joke. Who believes india has just 80 nukes? i dont believe it. i know 20 is good enough against pakistan and 40 to 60 against china but i dont believe a country who has two enemies has only 80 nukes. This must be a joke.

 

[GUNNER]

Thread headline must be a joke

Well, it appeared in an Indian online paper.

 

[Schindler]

At Gunner
still its a joke and people do believe it? A country like India will tell world its exact number of nukes that we have? My question was who believes it and i didn't got the answer. i must say india being very clever and smart over here. By saying we have far less nukes and pakistan will over take us in nukes number is very smart move. That way world will take a note and do something about it while they wont even look at india. i do believe even america and russia gave far less numbers of nukes on paper.

 

[GUNNER]

At Gunner
still its a joke and people do believe it? A country like India will tell world its exact number of nukes that we have? My question was who believes it and i didn't got the answer. i must say india being very clever and smart over here. By saying we have far less nukes and pakistan will over take us in nukes number is very smart move. That way world will take a note and do something about it while they wont even look at india. i do believe even america and russia gave far less numbers of nukes on paper.

Well, the report didn't originate in India in the first place. And to be honest, i don't believe that the numbers of warheads matter. If you can't use one, you may as well build a thousand.