US Based Think-Tank stated that India has largest nuclear power programmes among developing nations by the end of 2014.

US Based think-tank stated that by the end of 2014 India had enough weapon grade plutonium to own an estimated stock of atomic weapons in the range of 75-125. The organization also mentioned that India has largest nuclear power programmes among developing nations.

Seeing its weapon-grade plutonium stock, estimation of India’s nuclear resource can be derived. The report has been released on Monday by the think-tank which is US based. The resulting estimate has an average of 138 nuclear weapons equivalent with a range of 110 to 175 weapons equivalent.

“However, the actual number of nuclear weapons India built from its stocks of weapon-grade plutonium must be less. When accounting for the amount of plutonium in the weapons production pipelines and in reserves, it is reasonable to assume that only about 70 per cent of the estimated stock of weapon-grade uranium is in nuclear weapons,” the report said.

The report co-authored by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini said, “the predicted number of weapons made from its weapon-grade plutonium at the end of 2014 is about 97 with a range of 77-123. These values are rounded to 100 nuclear weapons with a range of 75-125 nuclear weapons”. Particularly, Albright had run anti-India campaign both at the Congress and among the think-tanks against the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.