Research Analyst Shawn Rostker spoke with South China Morning Post about nuclear arsenal buildup across the world.
However, both India and Pakistan are still “likely a few years away” from being able to deploy nuclear-armed submarines, according to Shawn Rostker, a research analyst at the Washington-based Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
“It will likely take some time before either deploys undersea missiles and longer before such missiles could be nuclear-capable,” he said.
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The build-up of “nuclear weapons anywhere threatens to destabilise everywhere,” Rostker, the non-proliferation researcher, said.
“We live in a much more complicated world today than during the Cold War when the nuclear race was limited to two superpowers.” Read more