Source: https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-forces/

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Should probably say "The Soviet Union/Russia", unless you're only counting nukes which were in the RSFSR

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Russian source: trust me bro.

Yeah but I doubt even five of the Russian ones work

Need to add China to that chart for the big picture.

well ignorance isnt good

Where did all the 1985 nucs go? Used for reactors? Or just stored?

Both sources are exactly that, none really discloses this type of data

Frankly, I find the chart from the source link is more informative.

I can say the exact thing about american nukes

So the explosion in the start was about 8k pieces high?

It’s not that complicated actually. A nuclear bomb is, extremely simplified, borderline critical uranium surrounded by explosives. Remove the explosives, and you almost have a fuel rod. So yes, nuclear energy.

China is at about 3% of these numbers (350 in 2022 as estimated by the US), so it might not even be a pixel in the chart.

The thing that is so deceiving about this, is that it applies the stockpile is lower and better. The countries have less bombs, but the bombs are significantly more powerful than the ones first manufactured.

One more 1993, and we could be done with them. 👀

Guys let’s only be able to completely kill each other a little bit

So the number of NATO bombs was growing exponentially, the USSR started to increase its number linearly and maybe this was a message like "we can do it too, so what now?"; NATO: "OK, understood", Russia: "nice, we will decrease too".

Fuel rods are enriched less than 5%, bombs are over 90%.

This is definitely not beautiful.

Are you not used to reading charts?

By the time the Soviets started their linear increase, NATO was already decreasing its stockpiles.

Having lived through it, I can assure you that the message was not: "we can do it too," but "we will bury you."

> Are you not used to reading charts? > > By the time the Soviets started their linear increase, NATO was already decreasing its stockpiles.

According to the chart USSR has a linear increase from the beginning while NATO decrease starts from 1967.

Maybe you considered the linear increase of USSR as starting from 1970 because after that the bars align to form a line?

Great. Now there are only enough warheads to destroy the Earth ten times.

Well, I was being nice to you.

Because if we take the drop from NATO into account, it's no longer a straight line and is therefore an exponential curve.

It's hard to say what kind of increase there might be in the beginning...you would have to eyeball it on a graph form that is not really well designed for it.

The USA is behind! We need to be able to obliterate the world more than Russia! More nukes!!!!!!!!!!

> it's no longer a straight line and is therefore an exponential curve.

It doesn't matter for my point if USSR's increase was linear or exponential

You could probably destory a small fraction of the surface if you tried hard enough.

China is so secretive I doubt that anyone outside of the PLA even knows what the numbers are.