List of states with nuclear weapons | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:01:59 1 Statistics and force configuration
00:03:45 2 Five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT
00:04:20 2.1 United States
00:05:49 2.2 Russia (formerly part of the Soviet Union)
00:07:17 2.3 United Kingdom
00:09:12 2.4 France
00:11:12 2.5 China
00:12:29 3 Other states declaring possession of nuclear weapons
00:12:41 3.1 India
00:16:28 3.2 Pakistan
00:18:51 3.3 North Korea
00:21:05 4 Other states believed to possess nuclear weapons
00:21:17 4.1 Israel
00:22:54 5 Nuclear weapons sharing
00:25:31 6 States formerly possessing nuclear weapons
00:26:16 6.1 South Africa
00:27:11 6.2 Former Soviet Republics
00:28:53 7 See also



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Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons these are the United States, Russia (the successor state to the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China.
Since the NPT entered into force in 1970, three states that were not parties to the Treaty have conducted overt nuclear tests, namely India, Pakistan, and North Korea. North Korea had been a party to the NPT but withdrew in 2003.
Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but does not acknowledge it, maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity, and is not known definitively to have conducted a nuclear test. Israel is estimated to possess somewhere between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads. One possible motivation for nuclear ambiguity is deterrence with minimum political cost.States that formerly possessed nuclear weapons are South Africa (developed nuclear weapons but then disassembled its arsenal before joining the NPT) and the former Soviet republics Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
According to SIPRI, the worldwide total inventory of nuclear weapons as of 2019 stood at 13,865, of which 3,750 were deployed with operational forces. In early 2019, more than 90% of the world's 13,865 nuclear weapons were owned by Russia and the United States.