nuclear weapons worldwide has been decreasing since the Cold War, still the same two countries possess the majority of them.
As a weapon of mass destruction, nuclear warheads are part of the defense arsenal of some countries in the world. There were approximately 13,080 nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021 and almost 90 percent of them belong to two countries: the United States and Russia. Even though the number of Number of nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021
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SIPRI. (June 30, 2021). Number of nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 01, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/264435/number-of-nuclear-warheads-worldwide/
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