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YOUKNOW?In2015,theUKhad 120 operationalwarheadswith 40 moreonsubmarinespatrollingtheseas
by numbers
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
Illustration by Nicholas Forder
MODERN-DAY
HREAT
USSIA 6,490
HEUS5,800
RANCE 300
HINA 290
HEUK 215
A K I STA N 150
DIA 130
RAEL 80
ORTHKOREA 20
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In 1945, the first-ever nuclear device was
detonated in the New Mexico desert
FatManandLittleBoykilledover
betweentheattackson
HiroshimaandNagasaki,Japan
A nuclear explosion can reach temperatures of around
2 0
YEARS
At today’s consumption
rate, there is around
worth of uranium available
from known sites on Earth
1,814 TONNES
The average uranium-mining waste created by
manufacturingasinglenuclearbomb
The most powerful known nuclear
bomb wss the Russian RDS-202
TsarBomba,testedin^1961
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BETWEEN 1945
AND 2017 THERE
HAVE BEEN
nuclear weapons tests
around the world
An average nuclear weapon
test would destroy
everything within a
siaand the US have around ten times the number
arheads the rest of the world has combined
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