How to 14525 nuclear warheads units spread across 9 countries

Many scientists believe that humanity could destroy itself before it will open something as significant as extraterrestrials. One of the ways that humanity could destroy itself a nuclear weapon. It is for this reason, its production and storage is strictly controlled. Today we can see how much the world's nuclear warheads, and where they are located.

After the end of the Cold War, the number of nuclear warheads in service with greatly reduced. According to the Federation of American Scientists to the end of the 80-ies humanity has accumulated more than 70,000 nuclear warheads. Today we can say that they 14525, and they are all located in nine countries.

The largest nuclear powers are the United States and Russia. In each of these countries, more than 6,000 nuclear warheads. Data do not include 20,000 plutonium pits that are stored on the Pantex plant in Texas.

France, China and the UK's short five largest nuclear powers. According to some reports have nuclear warheads in India and Pakistan. 80 rounds of ammunition in the territory of Israel. Data for North Korea can not be considered accurate. In its territory can be located from 30 to 60 warheads, and from 10 to 20 battleworthy charges.

There is an initiative of complete nuclear disarmament. It is supported by some UN member states, and the authors, is the holder of the Nobel Peace Prize vigorously working on the realization of their ideas to life. About their future successes you can learn in our Telegram chat.