Never underestimate the ability of a nuclear nerd to pore through years of social media posts.
World governments aren’t exactly forthcoming about where they’re stashing all their nukes. You want people to know you’ve got them, but not necessarily where they’re located. You would not want to, say, reveal that you’d removed nukes from a ship in an Instagram post about Yoga.,” the Federation of American Scientists detailed how it figured out the movement of India’s nukes using social media..
At just 172 nukes, India is a bit player in terms of the size of its nuclear stockpile. Russia and the U.S. have more than 5,000 each. Like other nuclear powers, India maintains a triad. It has air-launched nukes, land-based nukes, and sea-based nukes. But he wasn’t quite sure if the ships he was seeing were INS Suvarana and Subhadra. There were five other candidates that had never been equipped with nukes and it’s hard to tell a specific ship of the same type from satellite imagery.
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