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Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles
COUNTRY Strategic Nuclear Forces Non strategic nuclear forces Non deployed warheads Total nuclear warheads
Delivery System Warheads
Belarus 0 0 0 0 0
China 111? 200?     200?
France 166 348     348
India 200? ? 392* 0 40-50?
Israel ?   ? ? 100-200?
Kazakhstan 0 0 0 0 0
North Korea 150-200 No-Dong, 10 Taepodong? ~10?     ~10?
Pakistan 30-80? ? 263* 0 24-48?
Russia 819 3,500 2,330 10,170 ~16,000
South Africa 0 0 0 0 0
Ukraine 0 0 0 0 0
U.K. 64 ~200     ~200
U.S.A. 951 5,235 500 4,225 ~10,000
U.S.A. nukes in NATO     350**   350

Source: Nuclear Weapons Data, http://www.thebulletin.org/nuclear_weapons_data/index.htm
*Nuclear capable aircrafts
**The United States appears to have withdrawn 130 nuclear weapons from Ramstein Air Base in Germany in July 2007.

Military Fissile Material Stockpile (Metric Tons)
COUNTRY Plutonium[1] HEU[2]
Belarus 0 0
China 4 +/- 50% 21***
France 5 +/- 25% 33***
India 0.52 0.2***
Israel 0.45 +/- 25% 0
Kazakhstan 0 0
North Korea 0.035 +/- 50% ?
Pakistan 0.064 1.3***
Russia 95 700***
South Africa 0 0****
Ukraine 0 0
U.K. 7.6 (4.4 tons declared excess) 21.9
U.S.A. 92 (45 tons declared excess) 310

Sources:
[1] Global Stock on Nuclear Explosive Materials, July 12, 2005, <http://www.isis-online.org/global_stocks/end2003/summary_global_stocks.pdf>
[2] Global Fissile Material Report 2006, http://www.ipfmlibrary.org/IPFMreport06.pdf (This number indicates stockpiles in weapons.)
*** Numbers of military stocks are estimates.
**** South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapon programs in the early 1990s, and halted the production of weapons grade HEU subsequently converted to civilian use. It has about 430-580 kg weapons grade HEU under IAEA Additional Protocol Safeguards.


 

 

CNSThis material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2007 by MIIS.

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