By Arnold Bhebhe
Pakistan is reported to have amassed 70 to 90 nuclear weapons and India 60 to 80 as both countries alongside China race for more arsenals deploying them at different sites to escape detection.
Eminent American atomic experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen in an article “Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide Deployment of Nuclear Weapons, 2009” claimed Beijing, Islamabad and New Delhi were “quantitatively and qualitatively” increasing their arsenals and secretly deploying them.
This comes at a time when the world’s superpowers, America and Russia have taken a lead in nuclear reduction, and when the International Atomic Energy (IAE) is engaging Iran on the issue of nuclear proliferation.