This was cross-checked by inspectors of the United Nations. With this India has become third country after South Korea and Albania to do so. India informed the United Nations in May 2009 that it had destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons in compliance with the international Chemical Weapons Convention. By the end of 2006, India had destroyed more than 75 percent of its chemical weapons/material stockpile and was granted extension for destroying the remaining stocks by April 2009 and was expected to achieve 100 percent destruction within that time frame. In June 1997, India declared its stock of chemical weapons (1,045 tonnes of sulphur mustard). Others suggested that the fact that India has found chemical weapons dispensable highlighted its confidence in the conventional weapons system at its command. According to India's ex-Army Chief General Sundarji, a country having the capability of making nuclear weapons does not need to have chemical weapons, since the dread of chemical weapons could be created only in those countries that do not have nuclear weapons.
In 1992, India signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), becoming one of the original signatories of the CWC in 1993, and ratified it on 2 September 1996. India maintains a " no first use" nuclear policy and has developed a nuclear triad capability as a part of its " Minimum Credible Deterrence" doctrine. India previously possessed chemical weapons, but voluntarily destroyed its entire stockpile in 2009 - one of the seven countries to meet the OPCW extended deadline. India has signed neither the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, considering both to be flawed and discriminatory.
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India is also a subscribing state to the Hague Code of Conduct. It has signed and ratified the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention. India is a member of three multilateral export control regimes - the Missile Technology Control Regime, Wassenaar Arrangement and Australia Group.
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India has conducted nuclear weapons tests in a pair of series namely Pokhran I and Pokhran II. In 1999, India was estimated to have 800 kilograms (1,800 lb) of separated reactor-grade plutonium, with a total amount of 8,300 kilograms (18,300 lb) of civilian plutonium, enough for approximately 1,000 nuclear weapons. Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its nuclear arsenal, recent estimates suggest that India has 160 nuclear weapons and has produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to 200 nuclear weapons. India has developed weapons of mass destruction in the form of nuclear and chemical weapons and is known to possess nuclear weapons currently.