Thursday, January 3, 2013

Who Holds The World's Nuclear Warheads?

Who Holds The World's Nuclear Warheads? Get The Full List By Country -- The Guardian

The cold war is long over, but there are still over 7,000 nuclear warheads deployed globally. How is the world's nuclear arsenal distributed?

The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite heightened fears that the same know-how could be used to launch ballistic missiles. Which countries already have the capability to launch a nuclear missile, and how many warheads do they have?

Data on the number of nuclear weapons is notoriously difficult to find - not least because commitments on disarmament and dismantlement are linked to the number of weapons each state has claimed to have.

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My Comment: A lot of good data here.

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