India’s war frenzy left Pakistan behind in the nuclear arms race
India’s nuclear arsenal increased by 5%
India has 172, Pakistan has 170 nuclear warheads, China has 500 nuclear warheads.
Stockholm ( Web News )
India became the owner of more nuclear weapons than Pakistan. The nuclear weapons race continues in South Asia and India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan. While China has more nuclear weapons than these two countries. This has been stated by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a prominent Swedish organization that analyzes the weapons situation in the world and global security, in its latest annual report. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the report released on Monday by the Swedish think tank Sapri said that India has 172 and Pakistan has 170 nuclear warheads. While China has more than 500 nuclear warheads than these two countries. Cipri has said in its annual report 2024 that the nine countries with nuclear weapons are the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. Some countries have deployed new nuclear weapons or installed new nuclear weapons systems in the past year. According to the report, during the last one year, India has increased the number of its nuclear weapons, after which the number of nuclear weapons of India has increased from the nuclear weapons of Pakistan. Sapri says that in the year 2024, nine countries, the United States, Russia , Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have reduced the total number of nuclear weapons to about 12 thousand 121. Last year, the number was 12,512. It should be noted that the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data on the number of nuclear weapons is based on publicly available information. It includes information from official sources (official white papers, parliamentary and congressional publications and official statements) as well as secondary sources (news media reports and journals, trade journals). India has increased its stockpile of nuclear weapons by nearly five percent during the 2000s. According to a report published in 2023, India had an estimated 164 nuclear warheads. This year, this number has increased to 172. On the other hand, the number of nuclear warheads in possession of Pakistan is 170 without any increase. The focus is on the deployment of long-range weapons. Weapons that can also target China. Neighboring India and Pakistan and the world’s third-largest nuclear power, China’s nuclear arsenal has increased by 22 percent from 410 warheads to 500. Cipri estimates. By January 2024, China had installed about 24 of its nuclear warheads on launchers. By 2023, none of China’s nuclear weapons were in its military arsenal for potential use. According to the 2024 report of Sapri, the world’s nine nuclear powers have a total of 12,121 nuclear weapons. Compared to last year, the number of global nuclear weapons has decreased by about 390 warheads. However, the think tank says that there has been a slight increase in the number of nuclear weapons in military arsenals for potential use. According to the report, 9,576 nuclear weapons were in military arsenals for possible use. This year this number has increased to nine thousand 585. An estimated 3,904 warheads are deployed with operational forces worldwide. According to the report, 2100 nuclear warheads are installed in ballistic missiles around the world. Most of these missiles are owned by the United States and Russia. However, it has happened for the first time that China has also installed some of its warheads in its missiles. Sperry said in his report that India, Pakistan and North Korea are also steadily moving towards equipping their missiles with nuclear warheads. . Russia, France and the US are already doing this and recently China has also done it. This can further accelerate the deployment of warheads. In such a situation, the power of destruction of countries armed with nuclear weapons can increase. According to the report of Cipri, Russia and the United States have 90% of the total stockpiles of the world’s nuclear weapons. There has been no increase, while Russia’s nuclear arsenal has seen a reduction of 109 warheads. However, the think tank says Russia has installed 36 new warheads in the past year. The report says this claim. There is no evidence that Russia has deployed nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil. The Sipri report states that Russia and the United States have removed a total of 2,500 old nuclear weapons from their stockpiles. They are slowly destroying them. According to a report by Cipri, North Korea has 50 nuclear warheads while it continues to develop more nuclear weapons. Preparedness has become an important part of its national security strategy. It is estimated that North Korea has enough nuclear material to build 90 nuclear warheads. It has not openly admitted that it has nuclear weapons. However, it is believed to be modernizing its nuclear weapons stockpile. According to reports, Israel appears to be upgrading its plutonium production reactor at Dimona. Commenting, Cipri director Dan Smith says that as Cold War-era weapons are being phased out, the total number of nuclear warheads is declining. But sadly, the number of operational warheads is increasing year by year. Dan Smith believes that the number of warheads is not going to decrease in the coming days, which is very worrying.