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Nukes around the world

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Some numbers about the latest figures in the global arsenal of Nuclear Weapons.



  • There are 14,215 nuclear weapons in nine countries around the world.

  • US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have nuclear capacity .

  • The United States and Russia own 92% of them.

  • After peaking in the mid-1980s, the global arsenal shrank by more than three quarters.

  • Over the past 30 years, more countries have abandoned weapons and programs than they have tried to obtain.

  • Statistics include weapons that are either in storage or are being retired.

  • A nuclear winter is, by today standards, unlikely to happens.


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