NEW DELHI: An infographic released by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) reveals Pakistan has 10 more atomic weapons in its nuclear arsenal than neighbouring India.
According to a new infographic unveiled by BAS, Pakistan had a total of 120 atomic weapons last year.
The BASs the Nuclear Notebook Interactive Infographic provides a visual representation of the Bulletin’s famed Nuclear Notebook, which has monitored the number and type of the world’s nuclear arsenals since 1987.
The authors of the Nuclear Notebook are Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris, both with the Federation of American Scientists.
The report states, from over 65,000 nuclear warheads in the 1890s, then has dropped significantly to a little over 10,000, but more countries now possess them.
The infographic states, Russia and the United States, despite assurances of reduction have over 5,000 weapons each. France has 300, China 250, the United Kingdom 225 and Israel 80.
Pakistan has 120 whereas India has 110 and North Korea also conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013.
Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin said, “The Interactive is a way to see, immediately, who has nuclear weapons and when they got them, and how those numbers relate to each other. It is a startling experience, looking at those comparisons.”
Over 28 years of weapons analysis, the Nuclear Notebook column has revealed surprise nuclear activity and spot-on arsenal estimates while becoming a daily resource for scholars, activists and journalists.
“The new infographic makes this vital information even more accessible.”
‘Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age’, authored by George Mason University’s Gregory Koblentz, indicates Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear weapons programme in the world and by 2020 it could have enough fissile material to produce more than 200 nuclear devices, a top American think tank has said.
The study said India is estimated to possess enough fissile material for between 90 and 110 nuclear weapons and is expanding its fissile material production capacity.
The BAS founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the infographic tracks the number and history of nuclear weapons in the nine nuclear weapon states.
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