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India, China nuclear arsenals grow’ China, Pak. have larger nuclear arsenals than India, says Swedish think tank
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- All nations that have nuclear weapons continue to modernise their nuclear arsenals, while India and China increased their nuclear warheads in the last one year, according to a latest report by Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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- According to report:
(1) China is in the middle of a significant modernisation of its nuclear arsenal. It is developing a so-called nuclear triad for the first time, made up of new land and sea-based missiles and nuclear-capable aircraft.
(2) India and Pakistan are slowly increasing the size and diversity of their nuclear forces
(3) The nuclear arsenals of the nuclear-armed states other than the United States and Russia were considerably smaller but all these states were either developing or deploying new weapon systems or had announced their intention to do so, it noted.
- Decrease in number: Together the nine nuclear-armed states, the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, possessed an estimated 13,400 nuclear weapons at the start of 2020, which marked a decrease from.