NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - This week's conflict between India and Pakistan, which involved air strikes in each other's territories for the first time by the two nuclear-armed nations, has sparked fears of a nuclear confrontation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - This week's conflict between India and Pakistan, which involved air strikes in each other's territories for the first time by the two nuclear-armed nations, has sparked fears of a nuclear confrontation.COMPARABLE ARSENALS India has much stronger conventional armed forces than Pakistan, but both countries have comparable nuclear arsenals.
India's nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine"INS Arihant" became operational last year, giving the country a"nuclear triad" - the ability to launch nuclear strikes by land, air and sea.Pakistan has longer-range nuclear weapons, such as the Shaheen 3 missile that can reach India's Andaman Islands near Southeast Asia. India is developing long-range ballistic missiles able to strike targets across China.
However, if faced with the threat of a nuclear attack, India could strike first."You can always come back later and say 'we had been provoked to this point'," said Pervez Hoodbhoy, a prominent nuclear physicist based in Islamabad.India is believed to have sought nuclear capabilities after its defeat in a brief 1962 border war with China.
Since then, the countries have engaged in an arms race that has outpaced traditional nuclear rivals."I don't think we see the level of tit-for-tat development between the US and Russia that we do in the India and Pakistan programmes," said Liu. While Pakistan has been more vocal about its nuclear prowess, some analysts say, India - which is building nuclear plants for power generation - is more measured.
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