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Presently, the global nuclear stockpile comprises 22,600 weapons. These include strategic, non-strategic, and operational weapons.
The United States and Russia alone have 21500 nuclear bombs that make up around 95.5% of the total inventory.
The largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated was “Tsar Bomba”. The 50 Megaton mega-bomb was developed by the Soviet Union and was tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
The Tsar Bomba was the single most physically powerful device built by humans, producing approximately 1.4% of the power output of the Sun.
Today, Russia has 6257 nuclear warheads, of which 1456 are deployed nowadays. Russian Federation has performed official atomic testing 715 times. For comparison, the United States has 5550, of which 1357 are deployed. But the U.S. has the highest number of nuclear weapon experiments at 1054.
The visualization below created by Reddit user PieChartPirate shows the Number of Nuclear Warheads by country from 1950 to 2021.
