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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
Anybody not asleep should noticed it. It would take a minimum of two years to move that many missiles.
As of right now, China is assumed to have 200 operational warheads and India around 120.
There is another issue not considered here. Available nukes in other forms. We do not know if the Chinese are keeping nukes in component form, ie all the parts are there and they just have to put them together but another 100 warheads would be extremely easy for the Chinese to keep around.
Now, let's talk about putting the factories out to full capacity. The Chinese can add 300 warheads a year. They've got the fissile materials already.
And let's face it, they've already got the missiles.
India? She will be lucky if she can get the fissile materials for 5.
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Ramping up production will solve the problem of low numbers of missiles. Training is another thing which China is facing problems too.
As for fissile materials, you are wrong about that. IIRC, India has two military fast breeder plants solely for the production of nuclear warheads. Sometimes back, there was a study saying that India has enough fissile material to generate 5,000 warheads.