Why Did India, China And Pakistan Increase Their Nuclear Stockpile In The Last Year? | ABP Uncut

China had 290 such warheads in 2019, now it has 320, while India had 130-140 nuclear warheads in 2019, it has 150 in 2020, according to a report. Pakistan had 150-160 last year, and now has 160. When the world is fighting a pandemic, countries have been acting in increasing their nuclear warhead possession. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the total number of nuclear warheads in nine nuclear-armed countries has reduced from 13,865 in 2019 to 13,400 in 2020. Even though most of this has been because of reduction by the US and Russia, which together still have more than 90 per cent of the nuclear warheads in the world. Watch this video to understand how pressure politics works as a deterrent to war like situations.