The Indian nuclear city
Dr. Jassim Taqui
India continues with its policy of war and hatred against Pakistan. According to the latest report by the Foreign Policy magazine, New Delhi has accumulated a stockpile of nuclear weapons which threatens to undermine the regional and global peace.
A study published by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad last year indicated that India has sufficient material and the technical capacity to produce between 356 and 492 nuclear bombs.
There is a fear that the Indian reactors not mandated by the safeguards might be used clandestinely for plutonium production and the existing stockpiles might be diverted to a military program at a subsequent stage.
Ostensibly, India is preparing to explode its thermonuclear bomb, which would initiate nuclear arms race in the region. For, it is almost inevitable that Pakistan would respond to any Indian nuclear test with a similar one. In fact, Pakistan was about to explode the hydrogen bomb in May 1999 but opted to postpone the test when India announced a moratorium on nuclear tests.
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