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US-Russia Summit Nuclear Weapons Information

07.04.09 | 1 min read | Text by Hans Kristensen

By Hans M. Kristensen

Can they do it? Expectations are high for the July Moscow Summit to produce an agreement to extent the START Treaty and commit to additional nuclear weapons reductions in the future. The following provides quick access to information about nuclear weapons numbers:

Overview of World Nuclear Forces

Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-2006

US and Russian Total Nuclear Arsenals:

United States

Russia

Briefing slides on history of US and Russian nuclear arsenals

US and Russian Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons:

US Nuclear weapons in Europe

History of US nuclear weapons in South Korea

Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Other Nuclear Weapon States (Most Recent Overviews):

France, China, United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea

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