Nukes: India, Pak neck and neck, far behind China

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With an estimated 164 nuclear weapons, India’s nuclear stockpile is comparable to Pakistan’s but significantly less than China’s, which seeks to match its Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) numbers with that of the USA or Russia by the turn of the decade, according to the latest report from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released on Monday. As of January 2023, India was estimated to have a growing stockpile of 164 nuclear weapons, a small increase from the previous year’s count of 160. These weapons are assigned to a nuclear triad of aircraft, land-based missiles and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Pakistan, on...