Explainer: Can Pakistan Launch a Nuclear Attack on India? Rules, Risks & Potential Destruction
The tension between Pakistan and India is increasing. Pakistan is constantly threatening India with a nuclear attack. Can Pakistan launch a nuclear attack? What are the rules and how much destruction will be caused if a nuclear attack happens? Know everything.
Ankush Pandey
Only a few countries in the world have nuclear bombs, including India and Pakistan. Relations between these two countries have been tense for decades. After gaining independence from British rule, India was divided into two parts and a new country was formed, Pakistan.
India and Pakistan are neighbours but both countries have fought many wars, most of which have been fought over the Kashmir region, on which both countries have been claiming their rights. The latest case took place in Baisaran in Pahalgam, Kashmir, in which Pakistan's involvement was found.
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Terrorists trained in Pakistan killed 26 innocent people in Baisaran. Since then, tensions between the two countries have continued and Pakistan has been threatening a nuclear attack.
Can Pakistan launch a nuclear attack on India?
So the question in everyone's mind is whether Pakistan can launch a nuclear attack on India. Let us tell you that there was a Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement between India and Pakistan, in which both the countries have agreed that both the countries will not use nuclear weapons. On 21 December 1988, Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed the "Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement" in Islamabad. This treaty was approved by the Parliaments of India and Pakistan on 27 January 1991.
Which rule does India follow
Under the Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement, India and Pakistan will inform each other about the nuclear installations and facilities covered under the agreement on January 1 of every calendar year. The main objective of this agreement is to eliminate the possibility of nuclear attack between the two countries and maintain strategic stability.
After this, India announced the NFU (No First Use) policy in 1999, in which India said that it would never attack any country first with nuclear weapons. India gave the message that it would use nuclear weapons only for self-defense, that too if there is a nuclear attack on it.
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Pakistan can launch a nuclear attack on any country
According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Pakistan has clearly rejected the NFU (No First Use) policy. This means that Pakistan can use nuclear weapons on any country at any time if needed. But after the Non-Nuclear Aggression Agreement, if Pakistan uses nuclear weapons on India, it will not only have to face India's retaliation, but it will also be isolated on international forums.
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How many nuclear weapons do India and Pakistan have?
India became a nuclear power in 1974 and Pakistan, in contrast, became a nuclear power in 1998. According to ucs.org, India has about 164 nuclear weapons, Pakistan has about 170 warheads.
Which countries have nuclear weapons
- First the United States conducted its first nuclear test explosion in July 1945.
- In August 1945 it dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Four years later, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test explosion.
- Britain conducted nuclear tests in 1952. France followed in 1960 and China in 1964.
- Countries having nuclear weapons are- China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States.
- Other countries in which US nuclear weapons are deployed are Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey.
- The international community has not imposed any explicit ban on the use of nuclear weapons but the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) prohibits activities related to nuclear weapons.
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- To prevent the number of nuclear weapons from increasing further, the US and other like-minded countries negotiated and agreed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968 and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996.
- India, Israel and Pakistan never signed the NPT and have nuclear arsenals.
- The five nuclear weapon-possessed countries China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States are officially recognised by the NPT as possessing nuclear weapons.
- India, Pakistan and Israel never joined the NPT and are known to have nuclear weapons but Israel has not publicly conducted a nuclear test but is believed to possess nuclear weapons.
- India and Israel use plutonium in their weapons, while Pakistan uses highly enriched uranium.
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How much destruction will be caused by an atomic bomb explosion
Do you know what kind of destruction will happen if an atomic bomb explodes and when and who tested the atomic bomb for the first time? According to the Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center, the atomic bomb was tested for the first time in the desert of New Mexico at 5:30 in the morning. During this test, the explosion was so strong that smoke spread all around and the effect of the explosion was felt up to 160 kilometers. In this way, the atomic bomb was successfully tested and America surprised the whole world.
Even a small nuclear attack between India and Pakistan could kill 20 million people in a week. If a nuclear explosion occurs, about two billion people in developing countries will be at risk of death from starvation.
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