The United States has 4,650 nuclear weapons, including approximately 300 assigned to strategic bombers, 500 on Minuteman III missiles, 1,150 on Trident missiles aboard nuclear submarines, and another 200 thermonuclear bombs stored in Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy for use by NATO aircraft. Another 2,500 nuclear weapons are held in reserve, mostly in a depot near Albunquerque, New Mexico (Underground Munitions Maintenance and Storage Complex). The United States plans to spend $810 billion maintaining these weapons over the next decade. Russia has 1,740 strategic and approximately 200 tactical weapons. France has 300. Great Britain has 160. India and Pakistan each have approximately 100. China has 240. Israel and North Korea also have an unknown number of nuclear weapons. Other nations have recently voluntarily abandoned efforts in this direction (Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Libya and others).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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