India and Pakistan are two important and powerful countries of the world. Both the countries have nuclear power. This nuclear power is increasing year by year. Sometimes Pakistan is ahead in this race and sometimes India is ahead.
Before 2024, Pakistan had more nuclear weapons than India, but in June 2024, when the report of Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) came, it was revealed that India is now ahead in this race.
Now the question arises that what kind of devastation will happen in the world when the nuclear bombs of these two countries are blasted simultaneously. Let us try to find the answer to this imaginary question in this news today.
Number of nuclear weapons of India and Pakistan
According to the report of Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute i.e. SIPRI, at present India has a total of 172 nuclear weapons. Whereas, Pakistan has 170 nuclear weapons. That means there is not much difference in the number of nuclear weapons between these two countries. Talking about China, in this report it has been said that China has a total of 500 nuclear warheads.
What would happen if nuclear weapons were blasted simultaneously?
If the nuclear bombs of India and Pakistan explode together, then how much devastation they can cause can be estimated from the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Let us tell you, 75 years ago on August 6 and 9, when America attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, it is believed that about 1,40,000 people out of Hiroshima’s population of 3,50,000 were killed in this attack. That means almost half the population was destroyed. On the other hand, about 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki.
The thing to be seen here is that the population of people in these two cities at that time was not as high as it is in the cities of Pakistan and India today. If today a nuclear bomb explodes in a city in India or Pakistan with an area as large as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the number of deaths could be many times more than the number mentioned above. The biggest thing is that this will be the devastation of only one or two atomic bombs. Whereas India and Pakistan have a total of 342 nuclear bombs. You can imagine what kind of scene it would be if all of them burst together.
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