Indian Missile News And Discussion

[osman]

India's weapon of choice. Boosted fission: 200 to 300KT.



Well I have a different take on this. Please correct me if I am wrong. This boosted fission device uses reactor grade plutonium. India had 9 tonnes of plutonium of which 2 tonnes was used in fuel fabrication for the the Fast Breeder reactor. 4 tonnes of reactor grade fuel gives India 1000 weapons if it chooses to deploy them. So our weapon of choice for now is a weapon which is available and which does not add pressure on the nuclear submarine fuel production line until our chitradurga enrichment program comes online. This assumption is based on the Vasundra Raje reply in 2001. India will have subkiloton, fission, boosted-fission and thermonuclear warheads.



Assuming this position has not changed, we could still see MIRVs with 400 to 450kg Dr Saraswat has talked about. Just not in the numbers we want until our Chitradurga facility comes online. The Chitradurga facility isn't under safeguards. Our ENR will need more time.



There is as always the possibility of using our Fast breeder for warheads. Radiation can be dealt with according to some papers I read. How far we go down this path is not known. One sub kiloton device was a fast breeder output bomb.