05-04-2011, 01:03 PM
[quote name='Arun_S' date='04 May 2011 - 12:01 AM' timestamp='1304488413' post='111520']
[url="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/02/matt-gurney-pakistan-cant-be-trusted-with-nuclear-weapons/"]Matt Gurney: Pakistan canââ¬â¢t be trusted with nuclear weapons[/url]
Equal equal yield nukes w.r.t India
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Is this a propaganda equal equal ? Probably yes. First of all, with us itself, there is no conformation of our warheads having hundreds of kt yield, right ? Unless we have deployed fixed TNs (but even that requires a test for confirmation). Unless TSP has received TNs or uses weapons with huge amounts of HEU (>60 kg), they cannot achieve hundreds of kt...
Seems to me that the NPA crowd for many reasons wants to hype TSP capability vis a vis us. For example, they estimated our WGPu stockpile at 680kg or so as of 2009 but "found reasons" to lower the estimate to 500kg in 2010...Probably related to getting TSP in the bag for FMCT (after which sole pressure can be put on us).
[url="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/02/matt-gurney-pakistan-cant-be-trusted-with-nuclear-weapons/"]Matt Gurney: Pakistan canââ¬â¢t be trusted with nuclear weapons[/url]
Equal equal yield nukes w.r.t India
[/quote]
Is this a propaganda equal equal ? Probably yes. First of all, with us itself, there is no conformation of our warheads having hundreds of kt yield, right ? Unless we have deployed fixed TNs (but even that requires a test for confirmation). Unless TSP has received TNs or uses weapons with huge amounts of HEU (>60 kg), they cannot achieve hundreds of kt...
Seems to me that the NPA crowd for many reasons wants to hype TSP capability vis a vis us. For example, they estimated our WGPu stockpile at 680kg or so as of 2009 but "found reasons" to lower the estimate to 500kg in 2010...Probably related to getting TSP in the bag for FMCT (after which sole pressure can be put on us).