the most devastating weapon ever created
by humanity the atomic bomb the
destroyer of worlds is the only human
weapon capable of guaranteeing our own
mass extinction since its use in
Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear power is
now used as a symbol of the military
power that a nation possesses today
there are more than 16,000 nuclear
weapons ready to be launched and end all
life on Earth but today we will see the
10 nuclear powers on the planet and how
their nuclear power affects the nation's
influence over other nations
Number 10 Iran. Iran is the second regional power
right behind Saudi Arabia although it
does not officially have atomic weapons
there have been rising suspicions over
the last 10 years that they have the
capability of creating these weapons
after harsh sanctions imposed by the UN
Security Council that financially
drowned Iran they agreed to sign a
nuclear agreement with the six world
powers in exchange for the removal of
the sanctions and for the UN to acquire
more access to its nuclear facilities
but even without nuclear weapons Iran
has a real nuclear potential thanks to
their nuclear power plants and reactors
which if desired could produce an atomic
weapon in less than 12 weeks number nine
North Korea it has been a decade since
North Korea tested its first atomic
weapon since the start of their atomic
program in 2004 being a poor country
that it is it strains its resources in
order to manufacture their arms and
nuclear arms no one is certain of how
many nuclear weapons North Korea truly
has it is estimated to be at a minimum
of 10 and a maximum of 50 poor North
Korean technology does not allow nuclear
warheads to reach the United States or
Europe but they are more than capable of
reaching South Korea or Japan a North
Korean attack on Seoul the South Korean
capital or Tokyo the Japanese capital is
an existing possibility the dictator of
North Korea is attempting to miniaturize
nuclear weapons so that they are capable
of reaching the u.s. number eight Israel
Israel is the only nuclear-armed country
in the Middle East
but it does not officially admit this it
is not part of the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty therefore they
do not undergo inspections by the IAEA
and the UN it is well known that the
u.s. knows of Israel's nuclear
capability
has even provided the technology for
that Israel is the main detracted for
Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and
at the same time it is a strong critic
for the nuclear treaty with Iran since
there is filled in my new possibility
that Iran develops atomic weapons
according to Israel it would only take
one Iranian warhead to destroy all of
Israel while more than 10 Israeli
nuclear weapons would not affect Iran it
is estimated that Israel is in
possession of 80 nuclear weapons number
seven India India began its atomic
program during the 70s due to the fact
that its historical rival Pakistan also
undertook a programme of atomic
rearmament India is not a signatory of
the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
therefore they do not submit to the UN
or the IAEA for inspections regarding
its nuclear potential India has
threatened its neighbor Pakistan several
times and to completely erase them from
the face of the earth
to top it all off these two countries
have already been at war three times in
the past there is a high risk that if
this escalates any further it could
plunge the region into a nuclear
nightmare was one of the most powerful
armies in the continent the mere fact
that India possesses nuclear power gives
them more leverage in making
international decisions it is estimated
that India has approximately 110 nuclear
weapons number 6 Pakistan Pakistan is a
relatively poor an unstable country yet
it is one of the strongest military
powers in the world there a month with
10 most powerful armies on the planet
and to top it off their nuclear force is
also among the most significant in the
world just like India it is not part of
the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
the problem is Pakistan has encountered
security issues in the past as on
previous occasions terrorists have tried
to steal the nuclear warheads from their
facilities it is estimated that Pakistan
has a total of 125 nuclear weapons at
number 5 we have the UK the UK was one
of the five winning powers of world war
two and so they want to see as a
permanent member of the UN Security
Council and have the right to carry
nuclear weapons as a member of the
non-proliferation treaty the UK retains
most of its nuclear strike force and
nuclear silos and nuclear submarines
sailing the Atlantic and the Pacific the
United Kingdom is constantly mobilizing
its nuclear submarines to the Falkland
Islands which bothers Argentina as it is
not pleasant to be near nuclear missiles
with the ability of demolishing Buenos
Aires in one minute
is estimated that the UK is in
possession of 225 atomic weapons number
for China the People's Republic of China
is on its way to becoming the next
superpower in the world since it's the
second largest economy on the planet and
possessing the third most powerful army
in the world China slowly gains more and
more influence every single year they
have approximately 250 weapons just a
little more than United Kingdom which is
quite surprising given the power that
China has but China is in no rush to
expand its atomic armament unless it
starts an arms race against the US China
uses its nuclear potential both for
energy purposes and for military
purposes number three France in addition
to having the most powerful army in all
of Europe France is the third largest
nuclear power in the world with more
than 300 nuclear weapons France is the
country with the most nuclear reactors
just behind the u.s. in fact 75% of
France's energy production depends on
this source of energy France has
uninstalled the nuclear silos that it
had in its territory to avoid being
attacked in the event of a nuclear war
however it has all its nuclear capacity
in modern nuclear submarines hosted in
the Mediterranean Atlantic and Pacific
France's nuclear missiles are capable of
reaching any point or country in the
world it is one of the most modern and
safest nuclear systems on the planet and
number two we have the United States
this western superpower has an
astonishing 7700 nuclear weapons this
amazing amount of nuclear arms is due to
the fact that during the Cold War the
superpowers at the time the US and the
Soviet Union threatened each other with
assured mutual destruction at one point
the US and the Soviet Union managed to
reach more than 100,000 atomic weapons
between the two powers some eight times
more arms since they have now since then
the US has lowered its atomic armament
considerably but it does not neglect it
although some of their silos has not
been completely updated or modernized
the US has nuclear missile deposits in
some countries such as Italy Germany as
well as Turkey at number one we have
Russia the undisputed nuclear power of
the planet is Russia with more than
8,000 nuclear weapons that are capable
of destroying Europe and the war
Russia invests a large sum of money so
that I can be capable of hitting Europe
and the u.s. from its Enclave in Kalingrad
in the heart of the European Union
Russia has several massive warheads
capable of destroying cities such as
Paris or London in less than 35 minutes
Europe has missile defense systems in
place in order to limit Russia's ability
to hit the continent the atomic bomb is
clearly the most lethal weapon ever
created by mankind there exists a
possibility of nuclear war sometime in
the future if tensions were to grow
between the US Russia and China it is
important that we avoid this war because
as Albert Einstein once said I know not
with what weapons World War three will
be fought but World War four will be
fought with sticks and stones so I hope
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