The United States does not give or sell nuclear weapons to any country. The United States has stationed nuclear weapons on the territory of many countries, but always retained full control of them.
Many countries have nuclear weapons today including the United States. China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan also have nuclear weapons.
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The United States used the atomic bomb offensively during WWII. That is pretty close to nuclear weapons.
Today eight countries are in possessionn of nuclear weapons. The five nuclear weapons states United States, Russia (former Soviet Union), United Kingdom, France and China, are the only countries allowed to have nuclear weapons according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) from 1970. All members of the United Nations except Israel, India and Pakistan have signed the NPT.
The United States does not give or sell nuclear weapons to any country. The United States has stationed nuclear weapons on the territory of many countries, but always retained full control of them.
All of them have nuclear weapons cause they are the United States.
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No, China is not a nuclear-free zone. China possesses nuclear weapons and is one of the five recognized nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
The United States of America was the country that developed the first nuclear weapons.
The first nuclear weapons were developed in the united States under the Manhattan Proyect which made the first nuclear bombs.
Reduce Nuclear Weapons, people! I HAVE FURY!
Many countries have nuclear weapons today including the United States. China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan also have nuclear weapons.
In the most basic sense, proliferation of nuclear weapons is the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons usable technology in the world. In a much broader sense, it refers to the acquiring of capability to produce nuclear weapons, or weapons-grade nuclear material (high-enriched uranium, plutonium) by states previously not possessing them.
From 1945 until the late 1970s or early 1980s the United States always had the most nuclear weapons. After then the USSR/Russia has had the most nuclear weapons.
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According to my research the most weapons country is the United States currently owns 9,600 nuclear weapons, while Russia currently owns 16,800. But Russia actually always had more nuclear weapons than the United States.