{"id":1218,"date":"2026-06-09T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:00:08","slug":"india-expands-nuclear-arsenal-to-around-190-warheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/india-expands-nuclear-arsenal-to-around-190-warheads\/","title":{"rendered":"India expands nuclear arsenal to around 190 warheads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>India expands nuclear arsenal to around 190 warheads<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>News:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to the<strong>\u00a0Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India<\/strong>\u00a0is estimated to have\u00a0<strong>modestly expanded its nuclear arsenal<\/strong>\u00a0in 2025 to around\u00a0<strong>190 warheads.<\/strong>\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control, and disarmament. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beyond the nuclear domain,\u00a0<strong>India<\/strong>\u00a0retained\u00a0its position as the<strong>\u00a0world\u2019s fifth-largest military spender<\/strong>\u00a0in 2025. SIPRI estimated India\u2019s military expenditure at\u00a0<strong>$92.1 billion<\/strong>, an increase of 8.9% over the previous year. The country ranked behind only the\u00a0<strong>United States, China,\u00a0Russia\u00a0and Germany\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0defence\u00a0spending.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India also\u00a0remained\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>world\u2019s second-largest importer of major arms\u00a0<\/strong>(after\u00a0<strong>Ukraine<\/strong>) during the 2021-25 period, accounting for 8.2% of global arms imports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India expands nuclear arsenal to around 190 warheads News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-takeaways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}