China, not Pakistan, is the target of India's nuclear bombs

According to two leading US nuclear experts overseeing the world's nuclear programs, India is constantly modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, and the target of its nuclear preparations is no longer Pakistan but China.

In an article published in the latest issue of After Midnight, a magazine analyzing nuclear activities, Heinz M. Christensen and Robert S. Norris also said that India was now in the process of developing a long-range nuclear missile. Is busy with which it can target any area of ​​China from South India.

India is estimated to have produced about 600 kilograms of plutonium to make a nuclear bomb. Nuclear scientists believe that such plutonium is enough to make one hundred and fifty to two hundred bombs. "Based on the information available about nuclear warplanes and missiles, we estimate that India has made between 120 and 130 atomic bombs," the two experts said.

On the other hand, India is engaged in the development of several long-range nuclear-capable missiles and to equip them with nuclear bombs, India will have to make more bombs.

Plutonium is produced at the Dhruva reactor near Mumbai and is now reportedly building two additional reactors for plutonium.

Experts say the construction of a 'fast breeder reactor' at the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research at the Klapcom nuclear facility in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has boosted India's ability to produce plutonium for future nuclear bombs. Will increase

US nuclear experts have written in the article that India's program has traditionally focused on preventing Pakistan from a nuclear attack, but the nature of its nuclear expansion and modernization now gives a clear indication that The strategy is now focused on China.

One researcher believes that India will adopt a more efficient and comprehensive strategy in the coming days to be able to respond to a Chinese nuclear attack with certainty.

Heinz M. Christensen and Robert S. Norris wrote in the article that India currently has seven types of defense systems for dropping atomic bombs. Among them are two Jaguars and a Mirage 2000. Many experts believe that the Russian-made Sukhoi and MiG-27 could also be used for nuclear weapons, but this is unlikely. In addition, India has developed four long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. A ballistic missile is launched from a submarine under the sea. Prithvi-2, Agni-1, Agni-2 and Agni-3 are nuclear-capable missiles and are already under the command of the Indian Army. 

India has done many tests of Agni-4 and it will be used soon. This ballistic missile can hit a target at a distance of three and a half thousand kilometers. Its installation in India's northeastern region will affect the whole of China, including Beijing and Shanghai

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The Defense Research Institute (DRDO) is also developing the Agni 5 intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 km. The Agni-5, with its additional range capability for attack, can be deployed in the southern states of India from where it can target any region of China and at the same time it will be far from the Chinese counter-attack. There are also reports that India has started work on Agni-6. There are not many details about it. But an article on the government's Press Information Bureau website claimed that the missile could fly at 8,000 to 10,000 kilometers and could be launched from both submarines and land.