Bloomberg
India has slightly increased its nuclear arsenal, modernized its delivery systems and appears to be changing the way it prepares warheads by keeping them closer to missile launch systems, a report from a weapons research group said.
“It has long been assumed that India stores its nuclear warheads separate from its deployed launchers during peacetime,” the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report released Monday. In a first, the country now appears to be mating warheads to missiles as they sit in firing canisters.
India added an estimated eight warheads to its nuclear arsenal in the past year, bringing its total to 180, according to the group known as SIPRI. Rival Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal remained at 170 warheads.
