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Pakistan may continue to remain slightly ahead of India in terms of the number of nuclear warheads, with China having double the quantity, but the
Indian defence establishment believes its deterrence capability is "robust", designed to ensure "survivability" for retaliatory strikes and firmly on
track for further modernization. Pakistan now has 140-150 nuclear warheads as compared to 130-140 of India, with China hovering around 280, as per the
latest assessment of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which was released on Monday. The US and Russia are in a different
league altogether with 6,450 and 6,850 nuclear warheads respectively, together accounting for 92 per cent of the 14,465 nuclear weapons around the globe.
Arsenals of the other seven nuclear-armed countries are considerably smaller, but all are either developing or deploying new nuclear weapon systems. "India
and Pakistan are both expanding their nuclear weapon stockpiles as well as developing new land, sea and air-based missile delivery systems. China continues
to modernize its nuclear weapon delivery systems and is slowly increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal," said SIPRI. Defence establishment sources
here say India, confronted with the collusive threat from China and Pakistan, has no other option but to systematically build nuclear deterrence that
is "credible" and capable of inflicting massive damage in a retaliatory strike to any first strike by an adversary. "The number of warheads do not really
Indian defence establishment believes its deterrence capability is "robust", designed to ensure "survivability" for retaliatory strikes and firmly on
track for further modernization. Pakistan now has 140-150 nuclear warheads as compared to 130-140 of India, with China hovering around 280, as per the
latest assessment of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which was released on Monday. The US and Russia are in a different
league altogether with 6,450 and 6,850 nuclear warheads respectively, together accounting for 92 per cent of the 14,465 nuclear weapons around the globe.
Arsenals of the other seven nuclear-armed countries are considerably smaller, but all are either developing or deploying new nuclear weapon systems. "India
and Pakistan are both expanding their nuclear weapon stockpiles as well as developing new land, sea and air-based missile delivery systems. China continues
to modernize its nuclear weapon delivery systems and is slowly increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal," said SIPRI. Defence establishment sources
here say India, confronted with the collusive threat from China and Pakistan, has no other option but to systematically build nuclear deterrence that
is "credible" and capable of inflicting massive damage in a retaliatory strike to any first strike by an adversary. "The number of warheads do not really
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