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Table 1

Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles
COUNTRY	Strategic Nuclear Forces		Non strategic nuclear forces	Operational warheads	Non deployed warheads	Total nuclear warheads
COUNTRY	Delivery System	Warheads	Non strategic nuclear forces	Operational warheads	Non deployed warheads	Total nuclear warheads
Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0
China [1]	141?	~176?	?	~176?	?	~240?
France	166	348	0	348	?	348~
India	200?	50-60?	392*	?	0	50-60?
Israel	?	?	?	?	?	100-200?
Kazakhstan	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Korea	150-200 No-Dong, 10 Taepodong?	~10?				~10?
Pakistan	30-80?	?	263*	?	0	24-48?
Russia[2]	685	3,133	2,079	5,192	~8,800	~14,000
South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0
U.K.[3]	64	~160	0	~160	?	~160
U.S.A.[4][5]	891	3,575	500	4,075	1,260	~5,400
U.S.A. nukes in NATO [6]	0	0	150-240	150-240		150-240

Relevant Resources:
a. Nuclear Notebook from Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council,
http://www.thebulletin.org/nuclear_weapons_data/index.htm
b. Federation of American Scientists, Status of World Nuclear Forces,
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nukestatus.html

Key Sources:

[1]Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, July/August 2008, pp. 42-45.
[2] Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 2008, pp. 54-57.
[3] Speech by UK Secretary of State for Defence Mr Des Browne. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/cd/speeches08/1session/Feb5UKDefSecDesBrown.pdf
[4] Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, "U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2008," Nuclear Notebook, Natural Resources Defense Council, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March/April 2008. pp. 50-53 (vol. 64, no. 1) http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/pr53n270241156n6/fulltext.pdf
[5]The White House announced that President Bush’s decision to reduce the size of the DoD’s nuclear weapons stockpile by nearly 50 % from the 2001 level was accomplished in December 2007.
[6] The United States appears to have withdrawn 130 nuclear weapons from Ramstein Air Base in Germany in July 2007, and 110 from the RAF Lankenheath Air Base in the UK in June 2008.

*Nuclear capable aircrafts

Table 2

Military Fissile Material Stockpile (Metric Tons)
COUNTRY	Plutonium[1]	HEU[2]
Belarus	0	0
China	4 +/- 50%	21***
France	5 +/- 25%	33***
India	0.52	0.2***
Israel	0.45 +/- 25%	0
Kazakhstan	0	0
North Korea	0.035 +/- 50%	?
Pakistan	0.064	1.3***
Russia	95	700***
South Africa	0	0****
Ukraine	0	0
U.K.	7.6 (4.4 tons declared excess)	21.9
U.S.A.	92 (45 tons declared excess)	310

Sources:
[1] Global Stock on Nuclear Explosive Materials, July 12, 2005, <http://www.isis-online.org/global_stocks/end2003/summary_global_stocks.pdf>
[2] Global Fissile Material Report 2006, http://www.ipfmlibrary.org/IPFMreport06.pdf (This number indicates stockpiles in weapons.)
*** Numbers of military stocks are estimates.
**** South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapon programs in the early 1990s, and halted the production of weapons grade HEU subsequently converted to civilian use. It has about 430-580 kg weapons grade HEU under IAEA Additional Protocol Safeguards.

This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2007 by MIIS.