How Pakistan Is Planning to Fight a Nuclear War, by Kyle Mizokami.

Experts believe Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile is steadily growing. In 1998, the stockpile was estimated at five to twenty-five devices, depending on how much enriched uranium each bomb required. Today Pakistan is estimated to have an arsenal of 110 to 130 nuclear bombs. In 2015 the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center estimated Pakistan’s bomb-making capability at twenty devices annually, which on top of the existing stockpile meant Pakistan could quickly become the third-largest nuclear power in the world. …

[The Islamic Republic of] Pakistan currently has a nuclear “triad” of nuclear delivery systems based on land, in the air and at sea. … Pakistan is clearly developing a robust nuclear capability that can not only deter but fight a nuclear war.