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They have too give credibility to a program that has no delivery system no fissile material and smuggled centrifuges. A mouse has to roar like a lion.

Without going into a numbers game two hints exist to give an idea of India nuclear arsenal Firstly check Indian fissile material reserves Second India has completed the nuclear triad only p5 nations Have this capability. To have a completed nuclear triad you need a large nuclear arsenal and...

India Built Supercomputers Using Legal Parts - Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON — When India carried out its recent nuclear tests, the blasts were monitored by Indian supercomputers, the type of machine that the United States didn't want India to have.

USA has many different missiles and many different yields. If your numbers are limited You do not need to test the same missile with same yield a thousand times. In 1998 A neutron bomb has also been reported to have been tested successfully.

Supercomputer simulates nuclear explosion down to the molecular level

India had at least 100kt yield in 1998. Also hinted at computer simulated testing. 'We have an adequate scientific database for designing ... a credible nuclear deterrent' http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9805/14/india.nuke.computers/index.html Computer simulations can substitute for nuclear...

I am sure for a country that has been to moon and mars this should not be a surprise?

15-21 kiloton bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Lower yield MIRV 'd warheads are deadlier than highYield single warheads.

Look at military fissile material reserves to get a better picture. India third in world.

you are right I am really suprised the direction this thread has taken incredible. I am still puzzled how all this will be achieved without a test?

I am assuming this would also mean a SLBM MIRV coming in the future similar to Trident where most of the w-88 are used.

look at the CEP of our missiles last few all under 10. The Indian program does not view the West as an adversary so not much attention is given to the program? Any country that can send a rocket to the moon and launch 10 satellites in one shot has automatically proven capability.

when AGNI MIRV arrives we will smaller more compact warheads. I don't think we will exceed 200kt for AGNI. Your number 475kt is IMO excessive especially when we are using MIRV on AGNI which has excellent CEP.

True TW the point I was trying to make was plutonium based nukes do not need HEU. Most plutonium based weapons now have 2 cores which more or less guarantees if one Goes of it will trigger the second. And only a small quantity is needed 5kg of plutonium Is enough to reach critical mass.

The combination of many things brought about the nuclear deal to India. Another major development was India's heavy water production breakthrough.

This has always been true from the beginning. Two bombs dropped one on hiroshima and one On nagasaki one was pure uranium and the other pure plutonium.

One more point for oliver HEU is not necessary for many plutonium based warheads.

An advancement in centrifuge technology is Huge. Other nations have to spend about 4 years Before having enough HEU for one uranium based warhead of decent size using latest Centrifuge technology. Iranian Centrifuges are believed to be from pakistan.

Oliver where will we utilize all this HEU it seems by your numbers we will have excess even if used in More submarines and blanketing of warheads?

Almost all of our fissile material is Plutonium not HEU?