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| At the moment Pakistan has 120 nuclear bombs, while India has 100. |
The anxiety of having a deterrence against India has already made Pakistan build a nuclear bomb collection larger than India's.
At the moment Pakistan has 120 bombs, while India has 100.
More alarmingly, Pakistan is annually adding nuclear warheads faster than India, which in a decade should take its collection to 350.
At that level Pakistan would be the third largest nuclear weapon power in the world after USA and Russia.
This is the data researched by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center and reported by The Washington Post.
Pakistan is able to make bombs rapidly as it has a large stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
India has far larger stockpiles of plutonium, but it is using most of its plutonium to produce domestic energy not bombs, the report says.
The report has been disputed by many Pakistani analysts, who say the assumption that Islamabad is using all its uranium to make bombs is simplistic.