Pakistan beats India in n-race with 100 weapons
Islamabad, Jan. 31: Pakistan has overtaken India in the nuclear arms race by deploying 100 nuclear weapons, a media report said.
This number is double the stockpile that Pakistan has had in the past several years, the Washington Post reported citing US non-government analysts.
In a front page dispatch, the newspaper said only four years ago, the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was believed to have about 30 to 60 weapons.
The report, citing experts, added, “The Pakistanis have significantly accelerated production of uranium and plutonium for bombs and developed new weapons to deliver them. After years of approximate weapons parity... Pakistan has now edged past India, its nuclear-armed rival.”
However, Brigadier Nazir Butt, defence attache at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, did not confirm or deny the report, saying the number of Pakistan’s weapons and the status of its production facilities were confidential. “Pakistan lives in a tough neighbourhood and will never be oblivious to its security needs,” Brig. Butt was quoted as saying by the Post.
India is estimated to have 60 to 100 weapons.
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