Monday, December 22, 2008

India Vs Pakisthan Vs China

India Vs Pakisthan Vs China (Nuclear Warhead Stockpiles)
China
An anonymous poster sent an internal document of the Chinese Defense Ministry to the Hong Kong magazine The Trend (Dong Xiang). This document reveals that China at present has a total of 2,350 nuclear warheads. This number is about 8 times larger than the 300 generally cited in the Western media. Among the 2,350 warheads are about 550 tactical nukes and 1,800 strategic nukes. The document also reveals that the annual production of warheads was about 110-120 i n the 1980's and about 140-150 at present. China tested its first fission based nuclear bomb on 16th October 1964 dubbed as the ‘596‘ test. China’s first hydrogen bomb was successfully tested on 17 June 1967, with an yield of 3.3 Megaton. China’s current nuclear stockpile is significantly smaller than US or Russia - at an estimate of 150 to 200 warheads. However the exact number is unknown.

India
After 24 years without testing India resumed nuclear testing with a series of nuclear explosions known as "Operation Shatki." Prime Minister Vajpayee authorized the tests on April 8, 1998, two days after the Ghauri missile test-firing in Pakistan. Though India has not made any official statements about the size of it nuclear arsenal. the NRDC estimates that India has a stockpile of approximately 70-120 nuclear warheads and claims that India is producing additional nuclear materials. Joseph Cirincione at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (3) estimates that India has produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for 50-90 nuclear weapons and a smaller but unknown quantity of weapons-grade uranium. India's first Nuclear test occurred on the 18th of May, 1974.

Pakisthan
Pakisthan started focusing on nuclear development in January 1972 under the leadership of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program was in response to the loss of East Pakistan in bloody civil war in which India supported the civilian rebels of the then East Pakistan in what is now widely known as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) estimates that Pakistan has built 24-48 HEU-based nuclear warheads with HEU reserves for 30-52 additional warheads. Pakistan's nuclear warheads are based on an implosion design that uses a solid core of highly enriched Uranium and requires an estimated 15-20 kg of material per warhead.
We will defend our country using any means necessary and build a nuclear capability second to none. We will eat grass for 1000 years, if we have to, but we will get there. - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

What will happen to these great border nations ... if peace not prevail

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