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Nuclear medicine definition soviet union currency. The pakistan atomic energy commission paec the scientific and nuclear governmental agency is solely responsible for operating these power plants. The united states and russia account for around 93 of the worlds estimated 13900 nuclear weapons. Pakistans nuclear weapons capabilities have arisen independently of its civil nuclear fuel cycle using indigenous uranium.

How did countries like pakistan and indian acquire nuclear capabilities. India tested a nuclear explosive in 1974 but claimed that is was strictly for peaceful purposes and has consistently denied that it has any nuclear weapons. Pakistan does not have such a policy although islamabad claims it possesses nuclear weapons only to deter a strike by india its economically politically and militarily stronger neighbour.

Nuclear arsenals of india and pakistan. Seven other nuclear armed nations are not bound by treaties that require them to divulge information such as the number of strategic launchers and the number of warheads deployed on missiles allowing estimates of the numbers of nuclear warheads and. Because pakistan is outside the nuclear non proliferation treaty due to its weapons programme it is largely excluded from trade in nuclear plant or materials which hinders its development of civil nuclear energy.

Pakistan currently has a nuclear triad of nuclear delivery systems based on land in the air and at sea. As of 2017 nuclear power in pakistan is provided by five commercial nuclear power plants. Pakistans nuclear energy program dates back to the 1950s but it was the loss of east pakistan now bangladesh in a war with india that probably triggered a january 1972 political decision just one month later to begin a secret nuclear weapons program.

It is the same way that the super powers themselves acquired nuclear capabilities. Unlike neighboring india and china pakistan does not have a no first use doctrine and reserves the right to use nuclear weapons particularly low yield tactical nuclear weapons to offset indias advantage in conventional forces. The superpowers invested a huge amount of money resources and research on develo.

8 observers point to indias. Although its government has never admitted that it has nuclear weapons there is little doubt that israel has been accumulating a growing stockpile since the 1960s. Since paec consisting of over twenty laboratories and projects.

Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in may 1998 shortly after indias nuclear tests declaring itself a nuclear weapon state.