In 1998 alone, the US spent an estimate $35.1 billion on the Nuclear Weapons program. Before that, spending on the program exceeded $40 billion, and the spending on the program is expected to rise.
No, Kenya does not have nuclear weapons. Kenya is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and has consistently advocated for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
There were 23 total nuclear weapons tested at Bikini Atoll between the years of 1946 and 1958. These nuclear weapons caused a great amount of radiation to be leaked into the surrounding areas.
The countries known to have nuclear weapons are: United States Russia United Kingdom France China India Pakistan North Korea Israel Germany, Italy, Japan and South Africa have the capability of building nuclear weapons but have not done so. Canada once had nuclear weapons, but has dismantled its weapons and permanetly deacitvated its nuclear weapons program. So far it is the only country to do so.
A total of more than 70,000 nuclear weapons of various types were made, many of these were recycled to make newer models.At the peak of the cold war the US nuclear stockpile had 10,000 high yield strategic nuclear weapons and 40,000 medium and low yield tactical nuclear weapons.
Eventually there were so many nuclear weapons, total destruction of the Earth was possible. The term "Mutually assured destruction (MAD)" was used to describe the resulting holocaust.
That in the atomic age (atomic weapons) only limited wars can be fought. Nuclear weapons would mean total war.
The word "nuke" can mean a nuclear power plant or a nuclear weapon.As of January 2013, there are 437 nuclear power plants in operation in the world.Because countries with nuclear weapons are secretive about how many they have, the exact number of nuclear weapons is not known. The Federation of American Scientists estimates there are more than 17,000 nuclear warheads in the world as of 2012.
Limited war (not total war). Total war implied using all available means (nuclear weapons).
Total war is all out war; using all weapons available. The Korean War and Vietnam Wars were not total wars; they were LIMITED wars...limited to non-nuclear conventional weapons. Total wars can no longer be fought in this age of atomic weapons, without risking "mutually assured destruction."
I think the use of nuclear weapons should be banned. They are to powerful and to many of them are out there. There are enough known nukes total to kill more than 5 times the actual amount of people in the world.
These two cities belong to Japan. In ww2, nuclear weapons were used bringing total damage.
There are two non-signatories that have developed nuclear weapons. Those are India and Pakistan. A total of 189 countries are party to the NPT.