India has accumulated with plenty of good news coming in a row. It is another star that India is shining. As per the US reports India has the biggest nuclear programme among all the developing nations. Stating that India has “one of the largest nuclear power programmes” among developing nations, a US-based think-tank on Monday said by the end of 2014 India had enough weapon-grade plutonium to possess an estimated stock of atomic weapons in the range of 75-125.”
As per the report released by Institute for Science and International Security “An estimate of India’s nuclear arsenal can be derived by considering its weapon-grade plutonium stock. The resulting estimate has a median of 138 nuclear weapons equivalent with a range of 110 to 175 weapons equivalent.”
The report also added “the actual number of nuclear weapons India built from its stocks of weapon-grade plutonium must be less. When accounting for the amount of plutonium in the weapons production pipelines and in reserves, it is reasonable to assume that only about 70 percent of the estimated stock of weapon-grade uranium is in nuclear weapons.”
The report co-authored by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini said “Thus the predicted number of weapons made from its weapon-grade plutonium at the end of 2014 is about 97 with a range of 77-123. These values are rounded to 100 nuclear weapons with a range of 75-125 nuclear weapons.”
The report which is highly in demand says that India has produced around 100-200 kgs of weapon grade uranium for nuclear weapons. As per the report “Faced with a lack of information but evidence that India has produced HEU (highly enriched uranium) for nuclear weapons, it is assumed that India has made 100-200 kilograms of weapon-grade uranium for nuclear weapons. Of course, this estimate is highly uncertain.”
However, India’s stock of nuclear weapons is quite less than the neighboring nation Pakistan.
