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Countries With the Most Nuclear Weapons
426 sats \ 3 comments \ @suraz 31 Mar charts_and_numbers
  • President Trump has threatened to breach the NATO treaty and only send the U.S. military to defend allies who contribute what he deems to be a fair share of their national GDPs to their defense budgets.
  • Even without the U.S., France and the UK still provide the transatlantic military alliance with the third-largest nuclear arsenal.
  • In this graphic, we show the total number of nuclear warheads by country. The data comes from the Federation of American Scientists, as of 2024.
  • Despite reductions since the Cold War, the global nuclear arsenal remains significant, with nine countries holding approximately 12,121 warheads.
  • The U.S. and Russia together hold around 88% of the world’s nuclear weapons and 84% of the warheads ready for military use.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Mar
NATO is out nuked
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 31 Mar
Hmmm...
When did Nth Korea get nuclear weapons?
I also thought that the US had far more that every other country.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz OP 31 Mar
North Korea conducted its first successful nuclear test on October 9, 2006. This marked the country's official entry into the group of nuclear-armed nations. However, North Korea had been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades before that, with early efforts dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. Since 2006, it has conducted multiple nuclear tests and developed more advanced nuclear warheads and missile delivery systems.
And it's increasing, whereas for the US, it's decreasing.
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