With all the activity in DC about containing nuclear weapons, I was wondering: who actually has "the bomb?"
This briefing sums it up.
Not surprisingly, the "big" powers that have veto power in the UN:
China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States
These have tested their weapons:
India and Pakistan
Never tested but universally believed to have them:
Israel
Nations of concern developed or developing nuclear weapons:
North Korea, Iran, Syria
Had weapons but gave them back to Russia:
Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine
Had weapons programs but gave up for various reasons:
South Africa, Iraq, Libya, Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan
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Also Sweden had a secret program in the late 1950s early 1960s to be able to make a plutonium bomb. To this end the government launched a "Swedish line" building power reactors using natural Uranium with heavy water as moderator.Plutonium would be extracted from the used fuel. This type of reactor could not compete with the light-water rectors and was abandoned. The last such reactor, Marviken, that was never started up, can be seen from Sjöskogen (our cabin location).
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