India's Nuclear-Weapons Program: 5 Things You Need to Know
There is a tl;dr article at the National Interest.
Here is a much simpler summary.
India's nuclear weapons program.
1) How many? - Unknown. Estimates vary from 1-1000 depending on who you ask.
2) How big? - A 45 kT yield (3 times Hiroshima/Nagasaki) has been demonstrated in 1998 in non-weaponized configuration.
3) Why? - Who cares!
4) Will they use them? - Yes - if PM Narendra Modi wants that.
5) Safety? - Rendered unsafe only if PM Modi miscalculates and asks for pits to be inserted into physics packages.
posted by maverick @ 4:09 AM
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