More nukes in Pak than in India: SIPRI

Global economic crisis had little impact on defence expenditure on 65 percent countries

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Trithesh Nandan | June 3, 2010




The Pakistani nuclear arsenal has more warheads than the Indian one, says the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The data released by the SIPRI estimates that “Pakistan has at least 10 more nuclear warheads than in India.”

The Stockholm based think tank said that there are 22,660 active, inactive and stored nuclear warheads in the world.

The report also mentioned that despite financial down turn in 2009 global military expenditure reached a new high with the United States as the biggest arms spender followed by China.

SIPRI noted that India with a defence spending of 36 billion dollar was at the ninth spot. 

Read the findings of the SIPRI on nuclear war heads.

Findings on military spending

 

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