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Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance

Published September 7, 2008, 8:45 pm, Arms Control Association

The nuclear-weapon states (NWS) are the five states—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States—officially recognized as possessing nuclear weapons by the NPT. Although the treaty legitimizes these states’ nuclear arsenals, it also establishes that they are not supposed to build and maintain such weapons in perpetuity.

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