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United States |
U.S.S.R./Russia |
Britain |
France |
China |
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Warheads |
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Warheads in
stockpile (2003) |
7,650 active,
~3,000 reserve or
awaiting disassembly |
8,200 active,
~10,000 reserve
or awaiting disassembly |
200 |
350 |
400 |
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Peak number of
warheads/year |
32,500/1967 |
45,000/1986 |
410/1969 |
540/1993 |
450/1993 |
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Total number of
warheads built, years |
70,000
1945–1992 |
55,000
1949–2003 |
1,200
1952–2001 |
1,260
1960–2003 |
750
1964–2003 |
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United States |
U.S.S.R./Russia |
Britain |
France |
China |
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Weapon
development
milestones |
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Atomic bomb
developers |
Leslie R. Groves,
J. Robert
Oppenheimer |
Igor V. Kurchatov,
Yuli B. Khariton,
Boris L. Vannikov, Avraami
P. Zaveniagin |
William G. Penney,
John Cockcroft,
Christopher Hinton
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Pierre Guillaumat, Charles Ailleret,
Yves Rocard |
Nie Rongzhen,
Liu Jie,
Deng Jiaxian |
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Hydrogen bomb
developers |
Stanislaw Ulam,
Edward Teller,
Richard Garwin |
Andrei Sakharov,
Yuli B. Khariton,
Yakov B. Zeldovich |
William Cook,
Bryan Taylor,
John Corner,
Keith Roberts |
Michel Carayol,
Pierre Billaud,
Luc Dagens |
Deng Jiaxian,
Yu Min,
Peng Huanwu
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First operational ICBM |
Oct. 31, 1959
Atlas D |
Jan. 20, 1960
SS-6 Sapwood |
none |
Aug. 2, 1971
S-2 IRBM |
August 1981
Dong Feng-5 |
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First SSN enters
service, vessel name |
January 1955
Nautilus |
August 1958
November |
April 1963
Dreadnought |
January 1971
Le Redoutable |
1974
Han |
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First SSBN patrol with
Polaris-type SLBM,
vessel, missile name |
Nov. 15, 1960
G. Washington,
Polaris A1 |
1968
Navaga/Yankee,
SS-N-6 Serb |
June 1968 Resolution,
Polaris A3 |
Jan. 28, 1972
Le Redoutable,
M1 |
1986
Xia,
Julang-1 |
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First MIRVed
missile deployed |
Aug. 19, 1970
Minuteman III |
Dec. 25, 1974
SS-18 Satan;
April 26, 1975
SS-19 Stiletto |
December 1994
Trident II SLBM |
April 1985
M-4A SLBM |
none |
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First warhead deployed
without live nuclear test |
B-61 Mod-11, 1996 |
unknown |
unknown |
TNO/ASMP-A,
2007 (pending) |
unknown |
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United States |
U.S.S.R./Russia |
Britain |
France |
China |
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Testing milestones |
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Number of nuclear
tests/detonations |
1,030/1,125 |
715/969 |
45/45 |
210/unknown |
45/unknown |
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First fission test,
type, yield |
July 16, 1945
plutonium, 21 kt |
Aug. 29, 1949
plutonium, 22 kt |
Oct. 3, 1952
plutonium, 25 kt |
Feb. 13, 1960
plutonium,
60–70 kt |
Oct. 16, 1964
uranium 235,
20 kt |
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First test of boosted
fission weapon, yield |
May 8, 1951
Item, 46 kt |
Aug. 12, 1953
Joe 4, RDS-6c, 400 kt |
June 19, 1956
Mosaic/G2, 60 kt |
Sept. 24, 1966
Rigel, 150 kt |
May 9, 1966
~200 kt |
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First two-stage thermo-
nuclear test, yield |
Oct. 31, 1952
Mike, 10.4 Mt |
Nov. 22, 1955
RDS-37, 1.6 Mt |
Nov. 11, 1957
Grapple X, 1.8 Mt |
Aug. 24, 1968
Canopus, 2.6 Mt |
June 17, 1967
3 Mt |
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Months from first fission
bomb to first multistage
thermonuclear bomb |
87 |
75 |
61 |
102 |
32 |
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First nuclear airdrop,
aircraft used, yield |
Aug. 6, 1946
B-29, 15 kt |
Oct. 18, 1951
Tu-4, 42 kt |
Oct. 11, 1956
Valiant, 3 kt |
July 19, 1966
Mirage IV-A, 60 kt |
May 14, 1965
Hong 6, 35–40 kt |
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Atmospheric tests,
including underwater |
215 |
219 |
21 |
45 (five were zero-
yield safety tests) |
23 |
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Total Mts expended
atmospheric/underground |
141/38 |
247/38 |
8/0.9 |
10/4 |
21.9/1.5 |
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Largest atmospheric
test, yield |
Feb. 28, 1954
Bravo, 15 Mt |
Oct. 30, 1961
50 Mt |
April 28, 1958
Grapple Y, 3 Mt |
Aug. 24, 1968
Canopus, 2.6 Mt |
Nov. 17, 1976
4 Mt |
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Last atmospheric test |
Nov. 4, 1962 |
Dec. 25, 1962 |
Sept. 23, 1958 |
Sept. 15, 1974 |
Oct. 15, 1980 |
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First underground test |
July 26, 1957 |
Oct. 11, 1961 |
March 1, 1962 |
Nov. 7, 1961 |
Sept. 23, 1969 |
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Largest underground
test, yield |
Nov. 6, 1971
5 Mt |
Oct. 27, 1973
2.8–4 Mt |
Dec. 5, 1985
<150 kt |
July 25, 1979
120 kt |
May 21, 1992
660 kt |
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Last test |
Sept. 23, 1992 |
Oct. 24, 1990 |
Nov. 26, 1991 |
Jan. 27, 1996 |
July 29, 1996 |
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Major test sites,
(number of tests) |
Nevada (901),
Enewetak (43),
Bikini (23), Christ-
mas Island (24) |
Semipalatinsk (456),
Novaya Zemlya (130) |
Nevada (24), Aus-
tralia (12), Christ-
mas Island (6),
Malden Island (3) |
Algeria (17),
Mururoa (175),
Fangataufa (12) |
Lop Nur (45) |
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First computer-
simulated test |
2001, 12 teraflops
White computer
at LLNL, fully cou-
pled primary and sec-
ondary explosion |
unknown |
Pending; 3 teraflops
Blue Oak computer
at AWE Burghfield |
Pending; 5 tera-
flops Tera com-
puter at DAM-Ile
de France Center,
Bruyères-le-Châtel |
unknown |
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United States |
U.S.S.R./Russia |
Britain |
France |
China |
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Nuclear
infrastructure |
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Assembly and
disassembly plants |
Pantex, near
Amarillo, Texas |
Avangard, Sarov
(Arzamas-16), Lesnoy
(Sverdlovsk-45), Trekh-
gorny (Zlatoust-36),
Zarechny (Penza-19) |
AWE Burghfield,
near Reading |
Centre d’Études
de Valduc, in
Côte d’Or |
Zitong, in Sichuan |
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Plutonium and tritium
production sites,
number of reactors |
Hanford, 9*;
Savannah River, 5*;
Watts Bar, 1; Se-
quoyah, 1 (tritium) |
Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-65),
6*; Seversk (Tomsk-7), 2,
3*; Zheleznogorsk
(Krasnoyarsk-26), 1, 2* |
Calder Hall, 4;
Chapelcross, 4;
Windscale, 2* |
Marcoule, 3*;
Chinon, 2*;
Bugey, 1*;
Phénix, 1;
Celestin, 2* |
Jiuquan, in Gansu, 1;
Guangyuan, in Sich-
uan, 1 |
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Uranium enrichment
plants |
Oak Ridge,*
Portsmouth,*
Paducah |
Angarsk, Novouralsk
(Sverdlovsk-44),
Seversk (Tomsk-7),
Zelenogorsk
(Krasnoyarsk-45) |
Capenhurst* |
Pierrelatte* |
Lanzhou, in Gansu;
Heping, in Sichuan |
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Chief design labs |
LANL, New
Mexico; LLNL,
California; Sandia,
New Mexico and
California |
Sarov (Arzamas-16),
Snezhinsk
(Chelyabinsk-70),
Institute of Auto-
matics in Moscow |
Aldermaston,
near Reading |
Centre d’Études
de Bruyères-le-
Châtel |
Chinese Academy of
Engineering Physics
(CAEP), Mianyang,
in Sichuan |
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Current directors
and administrators |
Spencer Abraham,
energy secretary;
Linton Brooks, NNSA
administrator; Pete
Nanos, LANL acting
director; Michael R.
Anastasio, LLNL
director; C. Paul
Robinson, Sandia
director and president |
Alexander Rumyantsev,
atomic energy minister;
Radii I. Ilkayev, Sarov
director; Georgii N.
Rykovanov, Snezhinsk
director |
Willy Bach, under-
secretary of state
and minister for
defence procure-
ment; Bill Haight,
AWE managing
director |
Alain Bugat,
CEA general
administrator;
Alain Delpuech,
CEA director of
military
applications |
Cao Gangchuan,
director of General
Armament Depart-
ment (People’s Lib-
eration Army); Zhu
Zulang, director of
CAEP |
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*No longer operational. AWE, Atomic Weapons Establishment; CEA, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique; kt, kiloton(s); ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile; IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic missile; LANL, Los Alamos National Laboratory; LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; MIRV, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle; Mt, megaton(s); NNSA, National Nuclear Security Administration; SLBM, submarine-launched ballistic missile; SSBN, nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine; SSN, nuclear-powered attack submarine |
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