India, Pakistan expanding nuclear arsenal: Swedish think tank

NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan are allegedly expanding their nuclear warheads, according to leading Sweden-based think-tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). SIPRI on Monday published the findings in its ‘Yearbook 2015’.

At the beginning of 2015, there were an estimated 15,850 nuclear weapons held by nine states — the US, Russia, the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, according to SIPRI, 500 less than what SIPRI had listed in 2014.

However, the report said that though the number of warheads fell from 22,600 to 15,850 between 2010 and 2015, India (90 to 100 warheads) and Pakistan (100 to 120 ) undertook “extensive long-term modernisation programmes”