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India, Pakistan & Afghanistan
Situated side by side, India and Pakistan would have have less than 10 minutes to decide whether to respond to a report of a missile attack.

Nowhere are the dangers of escalating conflict and the use of nuclear weapons more stark than in India and Pakistan, which blasted their way into the nuclear club in 1998. Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, the growing presence of Islamist militants in the tribal regions shared with Afghanistan, coupled with a weak government in Islamabad all conspire to make this region the most dangerous in the world.

Estimated total nuclear weapons: India: 60, Pakistan: 60

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