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Originally Posted by xxxxx
anybody knows about the current numbers of nuclear warheads? I know that you can't know e.g. how much or if North Korea has some, but anyway, try to answer and please give me your sources.
I found this list, but it seems to be not up to date:
1 Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika 10.700
2 Russland 10.100
3 China 380
4 Frankreich 360
5 Israel 260
6 Grossbritannien 200
7 Indien 74
8 Pakistan 44
sorry, it's in German, but I think everybody can read it, right?
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You're going to get different numbers no matter where you go. It really is hard to find information on the number of nukes in most nation's inventories for the obvious reasons, and even countries that openly acknowledge having nukes don't really try to keep people informed as to their capabilities. Then you have tactical nuclear weapons for those countries possessing more advanced arsenals, which further complicate gathering accurate numbers (there are big differences between strategic and tactical nukes, and even some nukes that aren't really considered nukes!). I'd recommend giving up now, because you will get estimates that are all over the place, and there isn't really a good way of telling which ones are accurate. Suffice it to say that the US and Russia could blow everyone else to hell and gone.