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National Security Strategy

The Nuclear Club (January 2004)

 

Declared Nuclear States

• Russia: 8,400 warheads (11,000 km range)
• United States: 10,455 warheads (13,000 km range)
• United Kingdom: 200 warheads (12,000 km range)
• France: 350 warheads (5,300 km range)
• China: 390 (?) warheads (11,000 km range)
• Pakistan: 24-48 (?) warheads (1,500 km range)
• India: 18 (?) warheads (2,500 km range)
• North Korea

Suspected Nuclear States

• Israel: believed to have over 100 warheads; neither confirmed not denied

States Trying to Acquire Nuclear Bombs

• Iran: program slowed down after 1979 but believed to continue (IAEA report 11/10/03)

Former Nuclear States

• South Africa: voluntarily destroyed entire arsenal by 1991
• Kazakhstan: voluntarily gave up former Soviet weapons
• Belarus: voluntarily gave up former Soviet weapons
• Ukraine: voluntarily gave up former Soviet weapons

States with Inactive Nuclear Programs

• Argentina: program voluntarily shut down by 1990
• Brazil: program voluntarily shut down by 1990
• Algeria: program voluntarily shut down in 1991
• Iraq: program dismantled by U.N. after First Gulf War