Top 10 Countries by Nuclear Weapons (1945-2022)

This video will compare the top 10 countries by number of nuclear weapons from 1945 to 2022.

Datasources: World Bank, Federation of American Scientists, SIPRI, Statista
Music: Curse of the Scarab by Kevin Macleod

[RankingCharts]

This video will compare the top 10 countries by number of nuclear weapons from 1945 to 2022. Enjoy!

[kentuckytim]

Let’s say it together class, ”Mutual Destruction.”

[ArkliteDC]

The post cold war treaties is what brought the numbers down. However in modern days, it's more about effectively bypassing defensive layers. You don't need more than maybe a dozen or two successful warhead hits to completely destroy a country's infrastructure. Even if you only hit maybe 4 or 5 major cities, the country would likely eat itself in the chaos afterwards.

[FlareBlitzed]

South Africa: I just wanted to say hi, now I shall take my leave.

[vyros.]

For the US and Russia currently both have almost half of their warheads as retired and awating disarmament or being disarmed. Only about 800 to 1000 are deployed for both countries. With an ICBM holding 6-10 warheads.

[alexshepherd]

America: North Korea is so scary, they have as many as 10 nuclear bombs.
Also America:

[Wunderpus-photogenicus]

We all know, in a comparison of such destructive weapons, 100 is about the same as 10000. The success rate of the delivery system/mechanism is much more important.

[lokmilitarycannel]

during the years of the USSR, only Russia had nuclear weapons, in other countries of the social bloc there was only the deployment of the entire bloc on the territory for the defense. in the 60s the United States deployed nuclear weapons in Turkey, no one can say that Turkey had nuclear weapons

[jaypee]

Might have been interesting (though quite morbid) to have the United States start with 2 then go down to 0 before climbing again.

[hellovideos]

Fun fact : only 9 countries have nuclear weapons

[pittassavvas]

Iraq: we don't have any weapons off mass destruction!!
USA: yes we just saw the video, now we believe you. 💰

[johnrobertpostrado]

Countries have learned so much from that hiroshima and nagasaki. The potential of atomic bomb as a weapon and protection has been brought into significance. They knew you couldn’t get bullied easily no matter how small of a country you are when you have some of these shit with you. And they probably foresaw that in the future nuclear
War might become inevitable.

[stanislawek]

I love how music gets more serious as soon as Soviet Union overtake USA

[siddhant]

Imagine how scared would the people living in 1950's would be with USA having 5000 nukes in 1957 with 12 years back they have bombed Japan and razed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

USA with 31150 nukes in 1965
Soviets with 40000 in 1985

[bernard]

Would be interesting to see this done as megatons

[guzilayerken]

In fact most of the nuclear weapons that the US and the USSR, and now Russia have are tactical nuclear weapons, they are intended to be used to destroy the enemy's military, most of them are only a few thousand tons equivalent, and are used in a duel after a major nuclear war. That's right, tens of thousands of nuclear warheads cannot completely destroy each other, because the power of nuclear weapons is actually overestimated, even for strategic nuclear bombs such as the U.S. Army's W88 warhead, the kill range in cities is only a few dozen kilometers, and the kill radius for targets in bunkers is less than 10km, and this is still the power of hydrogen bombs. Most countries have nuclear weapons only atomic bombs, and atomic bombs are difficult to do more than 500, 000 tons of explosive yield, so they have a nominal nuclear deterrent, while hydrogen bombs have no upper limit of power to create hundreds of millions of tons of nuclear weapons to have the power to really destroy the country. The only countries that have hydrogen bombs are the five permanent members of the UN.

[Беленький-гш]

Thanks for contents. No words, only facts.

[dapstur]

Because we totally know how many weapons the governments of these countries are hiding 😂 joke

[francoism]

It's quite important that the main nuclear powers, USA and Russia, continue to reduce their stocks.

[AhimtarHoN]

What do you even need 30k nuclear bombs for? Like, is there any difference whether you hold 200 or 20000? Are they expecting to nuke every single enemy city 2x or what even is the point