List Names of Countries with Number of Nuclear Weapons

List Names of Countries with Number of Nuclear Weapons

According to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

At the start of 2014 nine states—

1-United States

2-Russia

3-United Kingdom

4-France

5-China

6-India

7-Pakistan

8-Israel

9-North Korea

—possessed approximately 4000 operational nuclear weapons. If all nuclear warheads are counted, these states together possessed a total of approximately 16 300 nuclear weapons (see table 1) compared to 17 270 in early 2013.

Over the past five years there has been a steady decline in the overall number of nuclear warheads in the world

The decrease is due mainly to Russia and the USA—which together still account for more than 93 per cent of all nuclear weapons—further reducing their inventories of strategic nuclear weapons under the terms of the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START).

Table 1. World nuclear forces, 2014

Country	Year of first nuclear test	Deployed warheads*	Other warheads	Total 2014
USA	1945	1920	5380	7300
Russia	1949	1600	6400	8000
UK	1952	160	65	225
France	1960	290	10	300
China	1964		250	250
India	1974		90–110	90–110
Pakistan	1998		100–120	100–120
Israel	. .		80	80
North Korea	2006		6–8	6–8
Total		3970	12 350	16 300

Deployed’ means warheads placed on missiles or located on bases with operational forces. 

Source – Sipri

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Monday, June 23, 2014

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