How It Works - UK (2020-05)

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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

2 ,^056

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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