5 Countries That Have Nuclear Weapons Or Nuclear Power Technology

1. Russia

Number of Nuclear Warheads in 2022: 5977

Russia was the second country to test its nuclear weapons a few years after the United States dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It is one of the five states recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Russia performed its first nuclear bomb test on August 29, 1949. They called the project “First Lightning.”

According to sources, Russia has  5977 nuclear warheads and 1500 of them have been retired or awaiting dismantlement. Moreover, 2889 warheads are undeployed and 1588 are deployed on heavy bomber bases, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On top of that, Russia has 2000 nonstrategic, low-yield nuclear weapons that are not subjected to any treaty. The highest number of nuclear warheads held by Russia was 40,159 in 1986.

Russia is the sixth largest Uranium producer in the world and mined 2,635 tonnes of the radioactive element in 2021. It had the largest Uranium enrichment capacity by 2018. Moreover, Russia has 38 nuclear reactors in the country and 15 nuclear reactors operating in 11 other countries.

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