How many Nuclear/Hydrogen Bomb India may have/ capable to produce?

[HariPrasad]

As per the recent revalation of Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, There are 2 huge uranium purfication plants in india are about to complete. Each will produce a huge stock of enriched uranium which is sufficient to run not only indian reactor and Sub fleet of 6 to 8 Nuke subs but surlus will be sufficient to make many bombs. India has also gathered a huge stock pile of Tritium from a path breaking crystal based detritium facility which is sufficient to make hundreds of H bomb.

Laddies and gentlemen, Lets us discuss how much H bomb and Nuclear bomb India may have?

India has a huge stock of weapon grade plutonium from her unsafeguard reactors.

Your point of views are well come, No trolling Please.

Karnataka home to second covert nuke site, drone testing: report - The Hindu

 

[Skull and Bones]

I remember reading a paper couple of years back, it said India has enough fissile materials to assemble 300-400 warheads in a short frame of time, while producing enough fissile material to arm 20 warheads every year. While having 90-100 active warheads in deployment.

 

[HariPrasad]

BARC has also been active in the following weapons related projects:

• A detritium process that extracts tritium from the heavy water used as a moderator in India's PHWRs. The extracted tritium can then be used to build a thermonuclear weapon.
• The Cirus reactor provided the plutonium for the 1974 nuclear test. The Dhruva Reactor is the primary generator of weapons-grade plutonium-bearing spent fuel. It is estimated that the reactor produces an average of 16-24kg of weapons-grade plutonium per year in its spent fuel.
• A pilot plant at Trombay was established for the enrichment of Boron-10 to 80 percent purity. The many nuclear applications of Boron-10 include controlling criticality in nuclear weapons storage sites, reactors, plutonium reprocessing plants and nuclear storage facilities.
• The Uranium Metal Plant, an unsafeguarded plant operated by BARC that fabricates fuel for India's research reactors, converts yellowcake (U3O8) feedstock to uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) and then reduces it to a metallic form using high-purity calcium or magnesium. "This facility can also convert yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for use in a uranium enrichment plant, and could be used to convert weapons-grade uranium or plutonium into metal for machining into nuclear weapons cores."
• In the area of uranium enrichment BARC operates two facilities. The first is a pilot-scale uranium enrichment plant at Trombay that was established in 1985. The plant uses around 100 gas centrifuges to produce up to 2kg of highly enriched uranium per year. A larger pilot-scale plant at Rattehalli near Mysore also uses centrifuge production to produce 28kg of highly enriched uranium per year. BARC has also pursued development of laser technologies for use in uranium enrichment, studying inertial confinement fusion, reprocessing plutonium and purifying heavy water.
• Plutonium extraction technologies have been utilized in the Power Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant (PREFRE), which can reprocess up to 50Mt of spent fuel each year. Administered by the head of BARC's Fuel Reprocessing Division, this facility reprocessed spent fuel from the Dhruva and Cirus research reactors. This facility supplies India with its primary stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium.
• The design and development of a nuclear-powered propulsion system for future Indian nuclear-powered submarines. Nuclear specialists from BARC are developing a pressurized water reactor that will burn plate-type 20 percent enriched uranium fuel to power the Indian Navy's Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV).
• As one of India's premier nuclear weapons laboratories, BARC is instrumental in designing and developing future thermonuclear weapons and nuclear warheads that can be carried on the Prithvi, Agni, or other future missile delivery systems.

Bhabha Atomic Research Center | Facilities | NTI

 

[wolfschanzze]

Around 500+ on paper it would be around 100, but in reality around 500+

 

[IND151]

We have 60 to 70 warheads as of now, if experts are to be believed.

 

[newdelhinsa]

Why should we tell ?

jab phatey-ge pata lag jayega.

 

[kbd-raaf]

Why should we tell ?

jab phatey-ge pata lag jayega.

I don't understand why India doesn't disclose the number of warheads it has.

The whole idea of nuclear warheads is to keep your enemy too scared to strike, amirite? They won't do that if they think you only have very few non-thermo warheads.

 

[Kurama]

I don't understand why India doesn't disclose the number of warheads it has.

The whole idea of nuclear warheads is to keep your enemy too scared to strike, amirite? They won't do that if they think you only have very few non-thermo warheads.

that will end up in arm race with china and pakistan...
and no one know the truth of indian hydrogen bomb... if they even really exist or not... as many say the yield from the 98 tests arw questionable..

 

[Mr.S.Singh]

100+ high yield nuke's are enough more self defence
We should concentrate more on tactical nukes nukes

 

[acid rain]

I don't understand why India doesn't disclose the number of warheads it has.

The whole idea of nuclear warheads is to keep your enemy too scared to strike, amirite? They won't do that if they think you only have very few non-thermo warheads.

Because we dont require to - we are not signatories to NPT. One thing I noticed is that the estimations run by SATP or any other group are wild guesses based on assumptions of availability of enriched uranium or plutonium and nothing else.
While a long time back I remember reading India having 1000 kg of nonenriched uranium way back in 1960's.

 

[Gessler]

We are maintaining anywhere between 200-250 warheads as of now. But not more than 150 are kept ready at any one
time. The total number of warheads we can produce, though, is much higher...closer to the 750 to 1,000 figures.

 

[NKVD]

In 1999 India was estimated to have 4,200 kg of separated reactor-grade plutonium, enough for approximately 1,000 nuclear weapons

India's and Pakistan's Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventories, end of 1999

 

[Alphacharlie]

The Issue is not of Makinng Nukes...

But cost of Maintenance is the ISSUE that is why once a Nation has Adequate Nukes Production is Ceased.

 

[timetravel]

Why do we need 1000 nukes.. do we want to end humanity on earth.

I hope not one is used and better all countries dismantle all their nukes. One error in human lifetime is sufficient to wipe out humanity.

 

[NKVD]

The Issue is not of Makinng Nukes...

But cost of Maintenance is the ISSUE that is why once a Nation has Adequate Nukes Production is Ceased.

sir ji Russian Economy is Almost close to India Still they have Largest Maintained Inventory Secondly China Can Maintain as Many Nukes as they want as they have the Largest Forex reserves