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..............estimate of world's stockpiles of nuclear weapons from the Federation of American Scientists and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. (Under the 2002 Moscow Treaty the USA and Russia are committed to reducing stockpiles to between 2200 aand 1700)
Russia...............2790
USA.................2126
France................300
China..................180
UK.....................160
Israel....................80
Pakistan...............60
India....................60
North Korea .....<10
A five yearly review of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty is to take place in May 2010
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