Nine countries are currently understood to have nuclear weapons.

Quick Scoop: How many countries have nuclear weapons?

  • The widely accepted number is 9 nuclear-armed countries.
  • These are:
    • United States
    • Russia
    • United Kingdom
    • France
    • China
    • India
    • Pakistan
    • Israel (undeclared but widely believed to be nuclear-armed)
* North Korea

A bit more context

  • Together, these nine states hold over 12,000 nuclear warheads in total, with Russia and the United States alone accounting for nearly 90% of them.
  • International monitors and researchers stress that numbers are estimates , since some programs (notably in China, Israel, and North Korea) are not fully transparent.
  • Beyond these nine, several other countries host U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil under NATO arrangements (such as Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey), but they do not own the weapons themselves.

Simple HTML table of nuclear-armed countries

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<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Country</th>
      <th>Nuclear status</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td>United States</td><td>Declared nuclear-weapon state</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Russia</td><td>Declared nuclear-weapon state</td></tr>
    <tr><td>United Kingdom</td><td>Declared nuclear-weapon state</td></tr>
    <tr><td>France</td><td>Declared nuclear-weapon state</td></tr>
    <tr><td>China</td><td>Declared nuclear-weapon state</td></tr>
    <tr><td>India</td><td>Declared nuclear-armed (outside NPT framework)</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Pakistan</td><td>Declared nuclear-armed (outside NPT framework)</td></tr>
    <tr><td>Israel</td><td>Possesses nuclear weapons but does not officially confirm</td></tr>
    <tr><td>North Korea</td><td>Claims and tested nuclear weapons</td></tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

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