Pak. suspected to have 25 nuclear warheads
WASHINGTON, JUNE 2. Pakistan has 25 nuclear warheads and North
Korea is suspected to have two, a Washington Times report said
today.
The newspaper, quoting the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Federation of
American Scientists, published a chart which showed that even
``nuclear threshold'' Israel had 200 nuclear warheads. India is
suspected to have 50 such weapons whereas the tally worldwide
shows the U.S. as having 6,750, Russia 5,400, France 400, China
300 and Britain 200.
On delivery vehicles, the report said the U.S., which can deliver
nuclear warheads by air and land-based and sea-based missiles, is
extending the life span of its Minuteman III inter-continental
ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
Russia too has similar capabilities and has gathered all missiles
stationed in the former Soviet republics. France eliminated land-
based missiles in the Nineties and Britain limited its nuclear
force to submarine-based missiles. The chart does not say
anything about China's means of delivery.
The report says India could use British-built Jaguar jets or
possibly short-range missiles to deliver its nuclear bombs,
Pakistan the U.S.-supplied F-16s or possibly short-range missiles
and Israel the U.S.-supplied aircraft or medium-range missiles.
It warned that North Korea may be developing an ICBM that could
reach the U.S. - PTI
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