World’s Nuclear Powers: There are only nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. These are – US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. Did you know that the combined nuclear warhead inventory of the US and Russia makes up approximately 90% of the global nuclear arsenal? India’s nuclear stockpile is more than Pakistan’s, but much less than that of China. In fact, China added 100 nuclear warheads in a year, and its nuclear stockpile is more than 3 times that of India! What is the nuclear stockpile of each of the 9 nuclear power countries? We take a look at the latest data released by SIPRI:

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