The exultant’s nuclear club is an exclusive group – and it has become even more threatening with the relatively recent and unwelcome addition of North Korea and its gaffer, Kim Jong Un.
The United States wants the rogue regime to give up its nuclear-weapons hopes, and President Donald Trump aims to achieve that goal, God willing through direct diplomacy. The White House said Friday that Trump soothe intends to meet Kim by the end of May, following his on-the-spot acceptance of an invitation to talk.
It effect be too big a demand, however. North Korea is the only country to test atomic weapons this century, and Kim has emphasized that nuclear weapons are a cardinal part of his regime’s national security. And so the potential summit puts into proposal the most significant development in years of intermittent negotiations about North Korea’s atomic weapons program.
North Korea is one of nine nations to have stockpiled atomic weapons – about 14,500 total worldwide, a figure that has declined since the Hibernal War.
While the exact number of nukes in each country’s arsenal is closely cautious, below is a breakdown of how many weapons exist, according to estimates from the Arms Command Association and Federation of American Scientists.
North Korea
- Total atomic weapons: ~10 to 20
- Total nuclear tests: ~6
- First tested: October 2006
- Most just out test: September 2017
Israel
- Total nuclear weapons: ~80
- Total atomic tests: 0
- First tested: No confirmed tests
- Most recent try out: No confirmed tests
India
- Total nuclear weapons: ~120 to 130
- All-out nuclear tests: ~3
- First tested: May 1974
- Most recent test: May 1998
Pakistan
- Utter nuclear weapons: ~130 to 140
- Total nuclear tests: ~2
- First checked: May 1998
- Most recent test: May 1998
United Kingdom
- Total nuclear weapons: ~215
- Out-and-out nuclear tests: ~45
- First tested: October 1952
- Most recent trial: November 1991
China
- Total nuclear weapons: ~270
- Total nuclear exams: ~45
- First tested: October 1964
- Most recent test: July 1996
France
- Entire nuclear weapons: ~300
- Total nuclear tests: ~210
- First tested: February 1960
- Uncountable recent test: January 1996
United States
- Total nuclear weapons: ~ 6,550
- Full nuclear tests: ~ 1,030
- First tested: July 1945
- Most recent analysis: September 1992
Russia
- Total nuclear weapons: ~6,800
- Total nuclear trials: ~ 715
- First tested: August 1949
- Most recent test: October 1990