Countries With Nuclear Weapons 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Nuclear Weapon Possession by Country Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Australia Australian Indian Ocean Territories Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Faroe Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norfolk Island North Korea Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint-Barthélemy San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Siachen Glacier Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia Somaliland South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas The Gambia Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

Since the advent of nuclear weapons in the first half of the 20th Century, few countries have been able to make them or gain access to them, and for good reasons. Nuclear bombs – also called atomic or atom bombs – are detonated by triggering a fission reaction that splits heavy atoms and releases a tremendous quantity of energy. Nuclear bombs are the most destructive weapon that human beings have ever created, and though many have been detonated for testing purposes, only two have ever been used during wartime.

During the Second World War, two nuclear bombs were dropped in the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. It is estimated that around 200,000 to 250,000 people died due to the explosions, though nobody knows the exact figures of the human lives that were lost, and estimates vary. Many others who didn’t die succumbed prematurely due to injuries and radiation poisoning sustained by the blasts.

Today, there are a handful of modern nations that possess nuclear weapons, and not all of those nations are close allies to one another, keeping humanity within a perilous existence where it is never completely improbable that nuclear weapons could be used again. However, after the end of the Cold War in 1991, tensions between nuclear powers eased tremendously. Countries such as Russia and Iran today pose the greatest nuclear threat to the world.

To learn more about countries with nuclear weapons, please scroll through the data in the charts.

Country	Nuclear Weapon Possession	Nuclear Warhead Inventory	Number of Active Military Personnel	Military Spending
Afghanistan	No		165,000	$278,250,788
Albania	No		7,500	$236,421,756
Algeria	No		139,000	$9,112,461,105
Andorra	No
Angola	No		107,000	$981,451,012
Anguilla	No
Antigua and Barbuda	No		180
Argentina	No		72,100	$2,591,642,985
Armenia	No		42,900	$619,435,472
Aruba	No
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	No
Australia	No		59,600	$31,753,716,216
Australian Indian Ocean Territories	No
Austria	No		23,300	$3,825,331,126
Azerbaijan	No		66,950	$2,703,176,471
Bahrain	No		8,200	$1,381,382,979
Bangladesh	No		163,050	$4,882,596,685
Barbados	No		610
Belarus	No		47,950	$762,776,224
Belgium	No		5,900	$6,311,494,797
Belize	No		1,500	$21,817,050
Benin	No		7,250	$97,424,489
Bermuda	No
Bhutan	No
Bolivia	No		34,100	$625,336,764
Bosnia and Herzegovina	No		10,500	$192,200,726
Botswana	No		9,000	$517,846,568
Brazil	No		366,500	$19,187,122,475
British Virgin Islands	No
Brunei	No		7,200	$453,337,799
Bulgaria	No		36,950	$1,216,592,091
Burkina Faso	No		11,200	$458,279,098
Burundi	No		30,050	$68,376,397
Cambodia	No		124,300	$643,379,508
Cameroon	No		25,400	$443,336,832
Canada	No		66,500	$26,449,162,679
Cayman Islands	No
Central African Republic	No		9,150	$43,197,413
Chad	No		33,500	$330,998,078
Chile	No		68,500	$6,230,436,399
Colombia	No		255,950	$10,180,134,292
Comoros	No
Costa Rica	No		0	$0
Croatia	No		16,700	$1,739,751,845
Cuba	No		49,000
Curaçao	No
Cyprus	No		12,000	$517,502,365
Czech Republic	No		26,600	$3,935,630,965
Democratic Republic of the Congo	No		134,250	$306,078,783
Denmark	No		15,400	$5,391,221,374
Djibouti	No		10,450
Dominica	No
Dominican Republic	No		56,050	$581,619,425
East Timor	No		2,280	$39,222,000
Ecuador	No		41,250	$2,417,000,000
Egypt	No		438,500	$5,165,445,627
El Salvador	No		24,500	$382,600,000
Equatorial Guinea	No		1,450	$170,180,660
Eritrea	No		201,750
Estonia	No		7,200	$763,954,588
Ethiopia	No		138,000	$487,848,610
Faroe Islands	No
Federated States of Micronesia	No
Fiji	No		4,040	$70,476,248
Finland	No		19,250	$5,903,500,473
Gabon	No		4,700	$311,454,929
Georgia	No		20,650	$302,144,189
Germany	No		183,400	$56,017,029,328
Ghana	No		15,500	$298,345,433
Greece	No		143,300	$8,079,943,236
Grenada	No
Guam	No
Guatemala	No		18,050	$341,780,822
Guernsey	No
Guinea	No		9,700	$244,558,590
Guinea-Bissau	No		4,450	$26,339,359
Guyana	No		3,400	$70,703,652
Haiti	No		500	$20,912,067
Honduras	No		14,950	$438,108,692
Hong Kong	No
Hungary	No		34,200	$2,777,132,531
Iceland	No		250	$0
Indonesia	No		395,500	$8,259,275,725
Iran	No		610,000	$24,589,091,554
Iraq	No		193,000	$4,728,165,568
Ireland	No		8,550	$1,267,738,884
Isle of Man	No
Italy	No		161,550	$32,006,137,654
Ivory Coast	No		27,400	$637,656,913
Jamaica	No		5,950	$209,817,012
Japan	No		247,150	$54,123,551,702
Jersey	No
Jordan	No		100,500	$2,176,760,563
Kazakhstan	No		39,000	$1,617,793,375
Kenya	No		24,100	$1,113,287,247
Kosovo	No			$79,609,745
Kuwait	No		17,500	$9,024,335,548
Kyrgyzstan	No		10,900	$124,852,201
Laos	No		29,100
Latvia	No		8,750	$826,631,977
Lebanon	No		60,000
Lesotho	No		2,000	$37,044,055
Liberia	No		2,010	$14,048,500
Libya	No
Liechtenstein	No
Lithuania	No		23,000	$1,240,539,262
Luxembourg	No		410	$460,028,382
Macau	No
Madagascar	No		13,500	$99,185,920
Malawi	No		10,700	$83,290,618
Malaysia	No		113,000	$3,830,234,243
Maldives	No
Mali	No		21,000	$558,379,250
Malta	No		1,700	$84,908,940
Marshall Islands	No
Mauritania	No		15,850	$230,935,493
Mauritius	No		0	$19,737,978
Mexico	No		216,000	$8,680,832,593
Moldova	No		55,150	$52,293,263
Monaco	No
Mongolia	No		9,700	$108,262,099
Montenegro	No		2,350	$98,628,193
Montserrat	No
Morocco	No		195,800	$5,378,366,535
Mozambique	No		11,200	$248,475,376
Myanmar	No		356,000	$2,107,821,055
Namibia	No		9,900	$401,859,308
Nauru	No
Nepal	No		96,600	$445,199,613
Netherlands	No		33,600	$13,752,010,407
New Caledonia	No
New Zealand	No		9,750	$3,389,851,485
Nicaragua	No		12,000	$77,919,650
Niger	No		5,300	$202,404,477
Nigeria	No		143,000	$4,466,397,816
Norfolk Island	No
Northern Mariana Islands	No
Norway	No		25,400	$8,251,716,513
Oman	No		42,600	$5,783,615,085
Palau	No
Palestine	No
Panama	No		0	$0
Papua New Guinea	No		4,000	$88,724,208
Paraguay	No		13,950	$372,601,369
Peru	No		81,000	$2,360,613,146
Philippines	No		145,300	$4,090,523,773
Poland	No		114,050	$13,710,679,108
Portugal	No		27,250	$4,908,940,397
Puerto Rico	No
Qatar	No		16,500	$11,593,406,593
Republic of Macedonia	No		8,000	$214,588,947
Republic of the Congo	No		10,000	$313,055,831
Romania	No		71,500	$5,563,282,002
Rwanda	No		33,000	$164,016,058
Saint Helena	No
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No
Saint Lucia	No
Saint Martin	No
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	No
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	No
Saint-Barthélemy	No
San Marino	No
Saudi Arabia	No		257,000	$55,564,266,667
Senegal	No		13,600	$473,971,931
Serbia	No		28,150	$1,270,783,747
Seychelles	No		420	$22,823,270
Siachen Glacier	No
Sierra Leone	No		8,500	$27,269,403
Singapore	No		51,000	$11,115,320,179
Sint Maarten	No
Slovakia	No		17,950	$1,983,207,190
Slovenia	No		6,950	$734,389,782
Solomon Islands	No
Somalia	No		13,900	$113,540,000
Somaliland	No
South Africa	No		74,000	$3,265,555,631
South Korea	No		555,000	$50,226,948,867
South Sudan	No		53,000	$170,376,338
Spain	No		122,850	$19,544,465,468
Sri Lanka	No		255,000	$1,563,052,164
Sudan	No		104,300	$375,212,619
Suriname	No		1,840
Sweden	No		14,600	$7,887,360,075
Switzerland	No		19,550	$5,738,402,626
Syria	No		169,000
São Tomé and Príncipe	No
Taiwan	No		169,000	$12,958,452,722
Tajikistan	No		8,800	$81,706,776
Tanzania	No		27,000	$742,341,844
Thailand	No		360,850	$6,604,525,525
The Bahamas	No		1,500
The Gambia	No		4,100	$14,706,393
Togo	No		8,550	$113,949,430
Trinidad and Tobago	No		4,650	$207,680,474
Tunisia	No		35,800	$1,250,454,380
Turkey	No		355,200	$15,478,850,939
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	No
Turkmenistan	No		36,500
Turks and Caicos Islands	No
Uganda	No		45,000	$1,066,564,383
Ukraine	No		196,600	$5,942,781,068
United Arab Emirates	No		63,000
United States Virgin Islands	No
Uruguay	No		21,100	$1,257,924,380
Uzbekistan	No		48,000
Vanuatu	No
Vatican City	No
Venezuela	No		123,000
Vietnam	No		482,000
Western Sahara	No
Yemen	No		40,000
Zambia	No		15,100	$282,577,996
Zimbabwe	No		29,000	$65,800,554
Eswatini	No			$81,056,710
Åland Islands	No
France	Yes	290	203,250	$56,646,996,216
India	Yes	160	1,460,350	$76,598,031,181
Israel	Yes	90	169,500	$24,340,979,541
North Korea	Yes	20	1,280,000
Pakistan	Yes	165	651,800	$11,304,829,853
People's Republic of China	Yes	350	2,035,000	$293,351,866,359
Russia	Yes	5,977	900,000	$65,907,705,047
United Kingdom	Yes	225	153,200	$68,366,440,552
United States of America	Yes	5,428	1,395,350	$800,672,200,000

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