Nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons exist today in the arsenals of these 9 nations. 14,995 to be exact. Only nine possess actual nuclear weapons: Russia, the United States, China, India, Israel, France, North Korea, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. North Korea may have more than triple the number of nuclear weapons that experts recently estimated.
While the exact number in each country's arsenal is often a closely guarded secret, some information is publicly available. Here's a breakdown of nuclear arsenals by country, based on data from leading experts in nuclear estimates.
The failure of the nuclear powers to disarm has heightened the risk that
other countries will acquire nuclear weapons. The only guarantee
against the spread and use of nuclear weapons is to eliminate them
without delay. Although the leaders of some nuclear-armed nations have
expressed their vision for a nuclear-weapon-free world, they have failed
to develop any detailed plans to eliminate their arsenals and are
modernizing them. Source: ICAN
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