Nuclear warheads source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

GDP source: https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

Tool used: https://www.draxlr.com/tools/bar-chart-generator/

Posted by chimera201

12 comments

  2. But they’re totally properly maintained and in operational status, on Russia’s part, lol

    The USA’s budget only pays for half of our arsenal to be deployed and ready to launch (and only another fraction of that on hair-trigger alert). Russia has what, 10x as many, with 1/10th the budget, 10x the corruption, and 1/10th the attention to detail and maintenance on their military overall?

    People shouldn’t worry about nuclear apocalypse nowadays tbh

  3. Interesting pattern. What is this pattern supposed to show? Higher the value the lower the ability of the nation to maintain the nukes they have? Or something to do with leverage on the national stage based on Nukes / GDP? (The higher the value the more the nation has to rely on their nukes for national leverage)

  4. How can you know how many nuclear warheads Israel “doesn’t” 😉 have? Don’t they *not* make any information on the matter available?

  5. People forget that maintaining strategic forces is much more expensive than maintaining a conventional military. It’s extremely costly for a country as wealthy as the United States to maintain a strategic deterrent. Imagine how costly it is for countries with GDP’s fractions of the size of the United States. I wonder how long Russia will be able to keep a large strategic force operational. Eventually they will have to compromise some other part of their military or government spending especially as their fiscal issues become more clear.

  6. Russia knows how weak their military is. Gotta have those nukes, as they are screwed without them.

  7. Geopolitically Russia has been punching well above its economic weight for a couple of decades. Without the (highly rusted) nuclear sabre it would be irrelevant.

  10. If it’s not purchasing power adjusted it’s not really useful; comparing raw dollar values is pretty meaningless

  11. This is so dumb. Russia had access to nuclear material to make this large amount of nukes. After backlash of India for conducting Nuclear tests, Pakistan got favours to develop theirs. GDP has nothing to with this, only geopolitics. I can count the number of nuclear armed countries on my fingers

  12. I wonder how many of those warheads actually still work.

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