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@ANTIBODY !
when there are 9 declared Nuclear weapons states, how are you compiling world's top 10 nuclear airforces ?
Country Warheads active/total[nb 1] Year of first test CTBT status[4]
The five nuclear-weapon states under the NPT
United States 2,150 / 7,700[2] 1945 ("Trinity") Signatory
Russia 1,740 / 8,500[2] 1949 ("RDS-1") Ratifier
United Kingdom 160 / 225[2] 1952 ("Hurricane") Ratifier
France 290 / 300[2] 1960 ("Gerboise Bleue") Ratifier
China n.a. / 240[2] 1964 ("596") Signatory
Non-NPT nuclear powers
India n.a. / 80–100[2] 1974 ("Smiling Buddha") Non-signatory
Pakistan n.a. / 90–110[2] 1998 ("Chagai-I") Non-signatory
North Korea n.a. / <10[2] 2006 Non-signatory
Undeclared nuclear powers
Israel n.a. / 80–200[2][5] Unknown (possibly 1979) Signatory
As of November 2009, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey are still hosting U.S. nuclear weapons as part of NATO's nuclear sharing policy. Canada hosted weapons until 1984, and Greece until 2001. The United Kingdom also received U.S. tactical nuclear weapons such as nuclear artillery and Lance missiles until 1992, despite the UK being a nuclear weapons state in its own right; these were mainly deployed in Germany.
As of 2005, 180 tactical B61 nuclear bombs of the 480 U.S. nuclear weapons believed to be deployed in Europe fall under the nuclear sharing arrangement. The weapons are stored within a vault in Hardened Aircraft Shelters, using the USAF WS3 Weapon Storage and Security System. The delivery warplanes used are F-16s and Panavia Tornados.
Historically, the shared nuclear weapon delivery systems were not restricted to bombs. Greece used Nike-Hercules Missiles as well as A-7 Corsair II attack aircraft. Canada had Bomarc nuclear-armed anti-aircraft missiles, Honest John surface-to-surface missiles and the AIR-2 Genie nuclear-armed air-to-air rocket, as well as tactical nuclear bombs for the CF-104 fighter. PGM-19 Jupiter medium range ballistic missiles were shared with Italian air force units and Turkish units with US dual key systems to enable the warheads. PGM-17 Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles were forward deployed to the UK with RAF crews. An extended version of nuclear sharing, the NATO Multilateral Force was a plan to equip NATO surface ships of the member states with UGM-27 Polaris missiles, but the UK ended up purchasing the Polaris missiles and using its own warheads, and the plan to equip NATO surface ships was abandoned.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, the nuclear weapon types shared within NATO were reduced to tactical nuclear bombs deployed by Dual-Capable Aircraft (DCA).
Sir USA has a nuclear sharing policy, by which it shares its air-deliverable nuclear arsenal with a couple of NATO allies.
Nuclear sharing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@ANTIBODY !
when there are 9 declared Nuclear weapons states, how are you compiling world's top 10 nuclear airforces ?
Which figther Planes of Pakistan can deliever Nukes ?i've been working on this for a couple of days-- have uploaded part1.. part2 in a day--
have included most of the data , so that no nationality feels underated
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