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Currently, nine states possess nuclear weapons.

United States - Tested its first nuclear weapon in 1945

Russia - Tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949

United Kingdom - Tested its first weapon in 1952

France - Tested its first weapon in 1960

China - Tested its first weapon in 1964

India - Tested its first weapon in 1974

Pakistan - Tested its first weapon in 1998

Israel - Acquired weapons sometime between 1967-1971

North Korea - Tested its first weapon in 2009

Four states have ended their nuclear programs

South Africa - de-nuclearized in 1991

Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan - Returned nuclear weapons to Russia in mid-1990s.

Nuclear Aspirants, but no nuclear program or weapons

Germany, Canada, Libya, Japan, Argentina, Syria. Sweden, Egypt, South Korea, Switzerland, Iraq, Taiwan

Future nuclear states?

Iran

See, Peter Beckman et. al, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear States, and Terrorism (2007), 41.

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