About 14,525 nuclear weapons exist today in the arsenals of these 9 nations
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- Nuclear weapons have been around since World War II and used twice in combat.
- However, thousands of nuclear test devices have been exploded over the decades.
- Modern stockpiles are smaller in number than the height of the Cold War, but eminently more deadly.
- Nine nations around the world possess a total of roughly 14,525 nuclear warheads.
On August 6, 1945, a US aircraft opened its bomb bay, dropped a car-size weapon over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and almost instantly killed tens of thousands of civilians. Many more people became sick or died in the weeks that followed.
Three days later, on August 9, 1945, a similar fate befell Nagasaki, Japan. It was the last time a nuclear weapon was used to attack people.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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