Status of World Nuclear Forces 

* All numbers are approximate estimates and further described in the Nuclear Notebook in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the nuclear appendix in the SIPRI Yearbook. See also status and 10-year projection of U.S. and Russian forces. Additional reports are published on the FAS Strategic Security Blog. Unlike those publications, this table is updated continuously as new information becomes available. Current update: April 30, 2014.

 ^a This number is higher than the aggregate data under the New START treaty because this table also counts bomber weapons at bomber bases as deployed. Detailed overview of Russian forces is here.
 ^b All are declared to be in central storage. Several thousand retired non-strategic warheads are awaiting dismantlement.
 ^c Includes all non-strategic warheads, strategic warheads assigned to delivery systems in overhaul, and most bomber weapons.
 ^d In addition to the 4,300 in the military stockpile, 3,700 retired warheads are estimated to be awaiting dismantlement. Details are scarce, but we estimate that Russia is dismantling approximately 1,000 retired warheads per year.
 ^e This number is higher than the aggregate data released under the New START data because this table also counts bomber weapons on bomber bases as deployed. See overview of U.S. forces here.
 ^f Nearly 200 (probably 184) B61 bombs are deployed in Europe at six bases in five countries (Belgiium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey). For details, see here and here.
 ^g Non-deployed reserve includes an estimated 2,360 strategic and 300 non-strategic warheads in central storage.
 ^h The U.S. government declared in April 2014 that its stockpile included 4,804 warheads as of September 2013. Since then, a small number of warheads are thought to have been retired.
 ⁱ In addition to the roughly 4,765 warheads in the military stockpile, approximately 2,500 retired warheads are awaiting dismantlement. In addition, close to 20,000 plutonium cores (pits) and some 5,000 Canned Assemblies (secondaries) from dismantled warheads are in storage at the Pantex Plant in Texas and Y-12 plant in Tennessee. For detailed overview of U.S. forces, see here.
 ^j France has stated that it has no reserve, but it probably has a small inventory of spare warheads. For an update of the French nuclear posture, see this article.
 ^k China is thought to have "several hundred warheads," far less than the 1,600-3,000 that have been suggested by some. None of the warheads are thought to be fully deployed but kept in storage under central control. The exstence of a Chinese non-strategic nuclear arsenal is uncertain. The Chinese arsenal is increasing with production of new warheads for DF-31/31A and JL-2 missiles. Detailed overview of Chinese forces is here.
 ^l Of these "operationally available" warheads, “up to 48 warheads” are on patrol at any given time. The number of "operational missiles" on each sub will be reduced to "no more than eight" with 40 warheads in the next few years. By the mid-2020s, the stockpile will be reduced to "not more than 180." Detailed overview of British forces is here.
 ^m Although Israel has produced enough plutonium for 100-200 warheads, the number of delivery platforms and estimates made by the U.S. intelligence community suggest that the stockpile might include approximately 80 warheads. Detailed overview of Israeli forces is here.
 ⁿ None of Pakistan's warheads are thought to be deployed but kept in central storage, most in the southern parts of the country. More warheads are in production. Detailed overview here.
 ^o Indian nuclear warheads are not deployed but in central storage. More warheads are in production. Detailed overview of Indian forces is here.
 ^p Despite two North Korean nuclear tests, there is no publicly available evidence that North Korea has operationalized its nuclear weapons capability. A 2013 world survey by the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) does not credit any of North Korea's ballistic missiles with nuclear capability.
 ^q Numbers may not add up due to rounding and uncertainty about the operational status of the four lesser nuclear weapons states and the uncertainty about the size of the total inventories of three of the five initial nuclear powers.