Atomic Advancement: India Is Modernizing Its Nuclear Weapons Programs
India maintains three or four nuclear strike squadrons of Cold War-vintage.
Key Point: India has 130 to 140 nuclear warheads and more are coming, according to a new report.
“India is estimated to have produced enough military plutonium for 150 to 200 nuclear warheads, but has likely produced only 130 to 140,” according to Hans Kristensen and Matt Korda of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. “Nonetheless, additional plutonium will be required to produce warheads for missiles now under development, and India is reportedly building several new plutonium production facilities.”
In addition, “India continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal, with at least five new weapon systems now under development to complement or replace existing nuclear-capable aircraft, land-based delivery systems, and sea-based systems.”
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Steve Liewer
Omaha World-Herald
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to return their nations ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin work toward replacing the last remaining treaty between the two countries limiting nuclear weapons.
For months, U.S. Strategic Command chief Adm. Charles Richard has been sounding the alarm about the growing nuclear threat from China.
Now we know why.
In the past month, civilian analysts studying satellite images have found two large fields of apparent nuclear missile silos â at least 230 of them â under construction in remote north-central China.
China splurges on yet more missile silos 3rd August 2021 - 03:57 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Christchurch RSS
An overview of the new field of missile silos being built in eastern Xinjiang. (Federation of American Scientists)
Beijing likes to accuse the US of having a ‘Cold War mentality , but China’s current splurge of missile silo building is unprecedented since the Cold War.
On 9 July,
Shephardreported that China was constructing a massive field of missile silos near Yumen in Gansu Province. Analysis of further satellite imagery has revealed that a second similarly sized missile silo facility is being built in eastern Xinjiang.
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