IEER Science for Democratic Action Vol. 4 No. 3

Retrospective on the Nuclear Age:

The Nuclear Weapon Haves and the Have-Nots

Declared Nuclear Weapon States (The "Big Five")

De-Facto Nuclear Weapon States

Suspected Secret Bomb Programs

Believed to Have Abandoned Bomb Programs

States Possessing Separated Plutonium

Heirs of the Soviet Breakup

(All nuclear warheads have been removed from Kazakhstan and transferred to Russia.)
* States that are not NPT signatories as of August 1994.

Note: many U.S. analysts believe the list of countries attempting to acquire weapons may be larger. See Gray 1994 as an example.

Sources: "Factfile," Arms Control Today, July/August 1994, p. 28; Gray, P. Briefing Book on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Council for a Livable World, December 1993, pp. 7-10; Posey, C. "Nuclear World Order," Omni, February 1993, p. 43.

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