Pakistan has a stockpile of around 170 nuclear weapons (symbolic photo)
Pakistan has a stockpile of about 170 nuclear warheads, which could increase to about 200 by 2025 at current growth rates. America’s top nuclear scientists have claimed this. The column ‘Nuclear Notebook’ published in the ‘Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ on September 11 said that we estimate that Pakistan has a stockpile of about 170 nuclear weapons.
The US Defense Intelligence Agency estimated in 1999 that Pakistan would have between 60 and 80 nuclear weapons by 2020, but since then many new weapons systems have been deployed and developed, which has inflated the estimate.
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Nuclear warheads can grow to 200
Scientists said our assessment is fraught with uncertainty because neither Pakistan nor other countries publish much information about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. “We estimate that the country’s reserves will increase beyond 2020 at the current growth rate,” he said. May reach around 200 in a year.
Big claim of American scientists
But unless India expands its arsenal or builds up conventional forces, it seems reasonable to expect that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal will not grow indefinitely but will begin to decline once its current weapons programs are completed.
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