Nuclear weapons

GLOBAL NUCLEAR STOCKPILE 1945-2002

THE FIVE MAJOR NUCLEAR POWERS CURRENTLY HAVE MORE than 20,000 nuclear warheads in their arsenals, as shown in the table below. But this does not include a number of intact Russian nuclear warheads of indeterminate status-possibly as many as 10,000. Of the more than 30,000 intact warheads belonging to the world's eight nuclear weapon states, the vast majority (96 percent) are in U.S. or Russian stockpiles. About 17,500 of these warheads are considered operational. The rest are in reserve or retired and awaiting dismantlement.

Since 1945, more than 128,000 nuclear warheads have been built worldwide-all but 2 percent of them by the United States (55 percent) and the Soviet Union or Russia (43 percent). Since the Cold War ended, more and more warheads in U.S. and Russian stockpiles are being moved from operational status into various reserve, inactive, or contingency categories.

Stopped watch showing the time the bomb was droped on Hiroshima

CONTENTS
- introduction
- the first atomic bomb
- hiroshima
- nagasaky
- aftermath
- fatal decision
- nuclear arms race
- consequences
- against the bomb.

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Year	US	USSR	Britain	France	China	Israel	India	Pakistan	Total
1945	6								6
1946	11								11
1947	32								32
1948	110								110
1949	235	1							236
1950	369	5							374
1951	640	25							665
1952	1005	50							1055
1953	1436	120	1						1557
1954	2063	150	5						2218
1955	3057	200	10						3267
1956	4618	426	15						5059
1957	6444	660	20						7124
1958	9822	869	22						19713
1959	15468	1060	25						16,553
1960	20434	1605	30						22,069
1961	24111	2471	50						26,632
1962	27297	3322	205						30824
1963	29249	4238	280						33767
1964	30751	5221	310	4	1				36287
1965	31642	6129	310	32	5				38118
1966	31700	7089	270	36	20				39115
1967	30893	8339	270	36	25	no na			39563
1968	28884	9399	280	36	35	no na			38634
1969	26910	10538	308	36	50	no na			37842
1970	26119	11643	280	36	75	no na			38153
1971	26365	13092	220	45	100	no na			39822
1972	27296	14487	220	70	130	no na			42194
1973	28335	15915	275	116	150	no na			44791
1974	28170	17385	325	145	170	no na			46195
1975	27052	19005	350	188	185	no na			46830
1976	25956	21205	350	212	190	no na			47913
1977	25099	23044	350	228	200	no na			48920
1978	24243	25393	350	235	220	no na			50441
1979	24107	27935	350	250	235	no na			52862
1980	23764	30062	350	274	280	no na			54706
1981	23031	32049	350	274	330	no na			56034
1982	22937	33953	335	279	360	no na			57858
1983	23154	35804	320	280	380	no na			59837
1984	23228	37431	270	360	415	no na			61624
1985	23135	39197	300	355	425	no na			63417
1986	23254	40723	300	420	425	no na			65057
1987	23490	38859	300	410	415	no na			63484
1988	23077	37333	300	410	430	no na			61550
1989	22174	35805	300	505	435	no na			59124
1990	21211	33417	300	540	430	no na			55863
1991	18306	28595	300	540	435	no na			48176
1992	13731	25155	300	525	435	no na			40161
1993	11536	22101	300	510	435	no na			34897
1994	11012	18399	240	500	400	no na			30571
1995	10953	14978	300	500	400	no na	no na	no na	27131
1996	10886	12095	300	450	400	no na	no na	no na	24121
1997	10829	11264	260	450	400	no na	no na	no na	23203
1998	10763	10764	260	450	400	no na	no na	no na	22637
1999	10698	10451	185	450	400	no na	no na	no na	22184
2000	10615	10201	185	470	400	no na	no na	no na	21871
2001	10491	9126	200	350	400	no na	no na	no na	2-567
2002	10600	8600	200	350	400	no na	no na	no na	20150
Believed to have						200	45-95	24-48

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