March 3, 2010 GeoEye satellite image of Rare Materials Plant (RMP), India’s military gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility. The construction of one or more large industrial buildings can be seen in this image. ISIS
India Nuke Enrichment Plant Expansion Operational In 2015 - IHS -- Reuters
(Reuters) - India is expanding a covert uranium enrichment plant that could potentially support the development of thermonuclear weapons, a defence research group said on Friday, raising the stakes in an arms race with China and Pakistan.
The revelation highlights a lack of nuclear safeguards on India under new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while sanctions-bound Iran faces minute scrutiny in talks with world powers over its own nuclear programme.
New units at the Indian Rare Metals Plant would boost India's ability to produce weapons-grade uranium to twice the amount needed for its planned nuclear-powered submarine fleet, IHS Jane's said.
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My Comment: Apparently this development and expansion program has been ongoing for the past few years. If reports like this one are true .... Asia is now at the brink of a major nuclear arms race.
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