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Russia started testing and constructing nuclear, and atomic bombs at the end of WW2. today, they own more the 4000 operational nuclear warheads. along with a total 12000 in storage.
Russia has roughly 3500 nuclear warheads at the time of this writing and the number is slowly falling.
At this time Russia.
Simple. To see if they work.
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America has roughly 10000 nuclear warheads and russia has anywhere from 5200-8800
I think they are still testing
china,russia,usa,uk!......
when France wanted to do what testing of a nuclear bombs on Moruroa island in the south pacific
Those were the only nuclear bombs used in the war. Any nuclear detonation after that - by any country - was only for testing.
they are allowed more by both SALT & START
Russia currently owns the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world. Also Russia made and detonated the biggest nuclear bomb in history called the Tsar bomb.