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| India and Pakistan in nuclear dead heat |
| 2004-10-16 |
| A new assessment by a Washington think-tank released on Monday claiming that Pakistan's nuclear-weapons arsenal "now appears large enough to rival that of India" has revived the controversies and debates surrounding India's nuclear policy and its objectives. In a paper on the world's fissile-material stocks, David Albright and Kimberly Kramer of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) estimate that Pakistan now has between 55 and 90 nuclear weapons compared with 55 and 110 in India. Israel and North Korea, listed among other current de facto weapons states, have between 110 and 190 weapons and between two and nine weapons respectively... Part of a rather rambling article which has some tidbits about the India-Pakistan relationship. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 "Nuclear Dead Heat" Somebody thought long and hard to come up with that title... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-10-16 9:14:09 PM |
| #3 If Pakistan and India have parity in terms of weapons,then this would force India to alter its nuclear doctrine. They would need to consider having a portion of their weapons in a launch on warning state. The prospects for a large hole in the middle of the Indian sub continent just increased. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-10-16 7:01:59 PM |
| #2 ummm ....huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-16 6:30:50 PM |
| #1 There's one tiny little difference about the Jew bomb tho..... THEY'RE ARE HAVE FUSION! |
| Posted by: abu Buchannan 2004-10-16 6:16:48 PM |