Pakistan could have up to 250 nuclear warheads by 2025, says report | Janes

[LKJ86]

Pakistan could have up to 250 nuclear warheads by 2025, says report
Gabriel Dominguez, London and Karl Dewey, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
05 September 2018

Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal could grow from an estimated 140–150 to between 220 and 250 warheads within the next seven years if the South Asian country continues expanding its nuclear weapon programme and delivery capabilities, according to a report published on 31 August by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Authored by members of the Federation of American Scientists, the 12-page long report points out that the country is expanding its uranium-enrichment and plutonium production facilities, as well as developing several delivery systems.

“Pakistan continues to expand its nuclear arsenal with more warheads, more delivery systems, and a growing fissile materials production industry … We estimate that the country’s stockpile could … grow to 220 to 250 warheads by 2025, if the current trend continues,” states the report, pointing out that this would make Pakistan the world’s fifth-largest “nuclear weapon state”.

Source:https://www.janes.com/article/82789...p-to-250-nuclear-warheads-by-2025-says-report

 

[hussain0216]

Exactly how many do we need to saturate all of hindu india?

 

[maximuswarrior]

LOL keep guessing.

 

[313ghazi]

Or we could have 12, or 120, or 500.

Nobody really knows.

 

[MultaniGuy]

Good. Just enough to destroy India completely.

India would never recover from a Nuclear war. Not saying Pakistan will survive either, but Hindu civilization would be destroyed.

 

[randomradio]

Exactly how many do we need to saturate all of hindu india?

We have 8500 towns and cities that represent 35% of our population. So you take a guess how many you need.

 

[maximuswarrior]

We have 8500 towns and cities that represent 35% of our population. So you take a guess how many you need.

We have enough to take you out.

 

[MultaniGuy]

We have 8500 towns and cities that represent 35% of our population. So you take a guess how many you need.

Listen, buddy we have enough to destroy all major Indian cities and industrial centres.

Do you think Hindu civilization would survive that kind of devastation?

 

[randomradio]

We have enough to take you out.

Listen, buddy we have enough to destroy all major Indian cities and industrial centres.

You guys make the guess on how much is enough. Leave the surviving part to us.

Do you think Hindu civilization would survive that kind of devastation?

Depends on what you call Hindu civilisation.

FYI, there are still millions of our immigrants all over the world. And there are other small Hindu dominated countries as well, like Mauritius and Bali.

Hinduism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. So its "death" is subjective.

 

[El Sidd]

We have 8500 towns and cities that represent 35% of our population. So you take a guess how many you need.

1

 

[hussain0216]

You guys make the guess on how much is enough. Leave the surviving part to us.



Depends on what you call Hindu civilisation.

FYI, there are still millions of our immigrants all over the world. And there are other small Hindu dominated countries as well, like Mauritius and Bali.

Hinduism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. So its "death" is subjective.

But india is your hindu heart and if we send 250 + nuclear warheads into it we can certainly burn it to the ground

 

[My-Analogous]

You guys make the guess on how much is enough. Leave the surviving part to us.



Depends on what you call Hindu civilisation.

FYI, there are still millions of our immigrants all over the world. And there are other small Hindu dominated countries as well, like Mauritius and Bali.

Hinduism isn't a religion, it's a way of life. So its "death" is subjective.

What new in it? it what every religion claim. By the way i read that book too

 

[FuturePAF]

Exactly how many do we need to saturate all of hindu india?

Increased yield of each warhead.

Pakistan follows developments around the world to maintain minimum credible deterrence; they constantly try to find ways to probably learn from the sixth North Korean Test; from September 2017. The yield of that device based on an average of the six or so reporting agencies of 6.2 on the richter scale and the propagation through the hard rock, deeply buried indicates their design was probably a real Hydrogen device, and the yield was in the "few hundreds of kilotons"; I.e. 250-500 kiloton range.
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1203827/north-korea-tests-an-h-bomb/

So 250 Pakistan warheads with a yield in the 250-500 kilotons should be enough for Credible Minimum Deterence considering they are installing a ABM shield

The affects of such a device can be seen if you plug in the yield into NukeMap; by comparison the Design from the 1998 test was around 20 kilotons, plug it in an see the difference for yourself.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

 

[Trango Towers]

Exactly how many do we need to saturate all of hindu india?

Long term india isnt a problem...
Its america and israel. Just watch and see. India has many insurgencies that will come to a head

 

[FuturePAF]

We have 8500 towns and cities that represent 35% of our population. So you take a guess how many you need.

Its not like Pakistan will stop at 250, but will keep going indefinitely if the need arises. If by 2050 Pakistan has 1000 warheads of one megaton yield each; striking that many targets on each side would do so much damage that nuclear winter would get the rest of the population, and take the whole world with it.