This report will encourage India to defy efforts to prevent a nuclear buildup and promote nuclear and missile restraint in the region. This confirms, to an extent, the feeling we always had that Pakistan was concentrating on an ambitious weaponization program and obtaining materials and technology from any place they can, using means fair and foul. He said the report justified India's decision to become the world's first new nuclear state since China's first blast in 1964. Stephen Cohen, a former State Department official and Pakistan expert at the Brookings Institution, said that even if the report is true, it was unlikely Pakistan's numerical advantage in nuclear bombs would be used in a conflict. Both think it is unacceptable to have a nuclear weapon dropped on their cities or to attack the other side.
Nuclear weapons are primarily psychological and political weapons.