Pakistan Outshines India With 9 Nuclear Warheads
Pakistan had 160 warheads in 2020 which has risen to 165 this year whereas India's arsenals in 2021 have risen to 156 from 150
According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), recent findings say that Pakistan has increased its nuclear warheads compared to 2020 to date and outnumbered India.
The report of SIPRI collected the dated from nine nuclear-armed states including the US, Russia, United Kingdom (UK), France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea.
SIPRI’s representative Hans M. Kristensen said, “The overall number of warheads in global military stockpiles now appears to be increasing, a worrisome sign that the declining trend that has characterized global nuclear arsenals since the end of the cold war has stalled”.
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The yearbook data says that Pakistan has increased its nuclear arsenal from the end of 2020 to the current year.
Pakistan had 160 warheads in 2020 which has risen to 165 this year whereas India’s arsenals in 2021 have risen to 156 from 150.
One of the research fellows of the yearbook said that India and Pakistan are pursuing new technologies and capabilities that dangerously undermine each other’s defense under the nuclear threshold.
‘Global nuclear arsenals grow as states continue to modernize’ — Findings of #SIPRIYearbook 2021 out now.
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The nuclear arsenal of China has risen from 320 warheads to 350 at the start of 2020.
Moreover, all these states possess an estimated 13,080 nuclear weapons at the start of 2021.
However, SIPRI reported that at the beginning of 2020, these states had 13,400 but it had dropped by 320 nuclear weapons in the current year.
Despite the overall decrease, the estimated number of atomic-weapons currently deployed with operational forces increased to 3,825, from 3,720 last year.
In addition to it, Russia and the U.S. together possess over 90% of global nuclear weapons and have more advanced programs underway, SIPRI said.
