World's Nuclear States Map

[Loki]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1973&stc=1&d=1244295472

Interesting: Germany, Canada, Brazil and Japan are expected to go nuclear within a decade.

[Albion]

It's interesting to see that Germany and Canada could potentially develop them, although I highly doubt they would.
Canada did once have some interest in nuclear weapons but now I think they just depend on being next to America for protection.

Germany shares US nuclear weapons and they're closing nuclear power plants so I don't think there's much interest in them there.

[The Lawspeaker]

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Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"

The 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are plotted visually and audibly on a world map.

As the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk&feature=related) starts out detonations are few and far between. The first three detonations represent the Manhattan Project and the two bombs that ended World War II. After a few representative minutes the USSR and Britain enter the nuclear club and the testing really starts to heat up.

Even though the video does not differentiate between sub-critical "safety" tests and full detonations, you get a good idea of the fever of the nuclear arms race.

The time line does not extent to tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).

Video credit: goes to Isao Hashimoto (www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/)

[D_Sheetz]

seems like we should be interested in why India isn't joining the nuclear club O.o

[Albion]

seems like we should be interested in why India isn't joining the nuclear club O.o

To nuke Pakistan and guard against China obviously.

[Grumpy Cat]

I pointed this out before.

Check out the current nuclear states on the global penis size map, and you'll notice a trend:

http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073

:P

[Albion]

I pointed this out before.

Check out the current nuclear states on the global penis size map, and you'll notice a trend:

http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073

:P

Almost, but France and the UK seem to be average. America, Russia, India and China on the other hand...

[Graham]

Once we are a small independent country, we shall have a good share of the worlds nukes and join the Nuke elite. So don't mess with us.

[SilverKnight]

I don't believe in the proliferation of nuclear weapons in most countries, I think small, surrounded by water and vulnerable countries like Japan,ex. deserve to have them, but in small amounts tho.

[askra]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Nwfz.svg/800px-Nwfz.svg.png
Blue: Nuclear Weapons Free Zone by international treaty, including territories that belong to a Nuclear Weapons State that has agreed the territory is subject to a zone. (Do not add unilaterally declared national or subnational zones with no international treaty, until we have a thorough survey of these.)
Red: Nuclear weapons states and territories belonging to them that are not in any NWFZ
Orange: Nuclear sharing (US nuclear arsenal stationed there for host country use in wartime)
Gold: None of the above (but party to the Non Proliferation Treaty(NPT))



You should add also Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey that host U.S. nuclear weapons as part of NATO's nuclear sharing policy, and these countries are allowed to use them in case of atomic war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

[microrobert]

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/fo0505_nuclearweaponsw9401.gif?w=940&h=994


This graphic attempts to look at the number of immediately available nuclear weapons in the world; weapons that could at a very short notice — because that is the point — be used in a war. Taking the latest data available from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists we have constructed a graph of instantly available launch devices — missiles with nuclear warheads installed and ready to fly or drop.

They could be intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-, air- or land-launched cruise missiles, single stage nukes or just plain bombs. The graph does not take into account that in many cases the missiles themselves may contain up to 12 warheads, nor does it take into account the size or kilo tonnage of the weapons themselves.


Enlarge the image (http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/fo0505_nuclearweaponsw25001.gif) or view a large-scale PDF (http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/fo0505_nuclearweaponsw1.pdf)



World’s nuclear arsenal graphic | Graphics | News | National Post (http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/04/world-nuclear-graphic/)

[SKYNET]

India sucks, Pakistan sucks, China sucks, Korea sucks.

[Tatar]

India sucks, Pakistan sucks, China sucks, Korea sucks.

Great so don't cry when those country will nuke Canada

[SilverKnight]

India sucks, Pakistan sucks, China sucks, Korea sucks.


China has a decent amount of nuclear -subs that could reach N. America without being detected. So I doubt they do.


Once you're a blue water nuclear power, you become a real great threat.

[Scandalf]

China has a decent amount of nuclear -subs that could reach N. America without being detected. So I doubt they do.


Once you're a blue water nuclear power, you become a real great threat.

Err... China is not a "Blue Water" Power. A Nuclear Power without any doubt but it lacks a Blue Water Navy.

[SilverKnight]

Err... China is not a "Blue Water" Power. A Nuclear Power without any doubt but it lacks a Blue Water Navy.


I meant it's capable of deploying subs with nuclear warheads.

[SKYNET]

Great so don't cry when those country will nuke Canada


you are wrong, I will never cry if you'll keep calm and don't fart in my ears ;) no surprising to hear from a poor tatar-finno-ugric user from third world like russia how Canada will come under the nuclear attacks.

[blogen]

The nuclear weapons are the poor countries' air superiority. Look at the last and prospective nuclear powers! The failed states do not have money and opportunity onto modern military force, so the nuclear weapon is the pawn of their survival. The modern missile defence system is the symbol of the real power in this century.

[Scandalf]

I meant it's capable of deploying subs with nuclear warheads.

That's true indeed. But the US Navy pratically controls every blue spot on the planet.

[Gauthier]

Brazil's case is strange. I don't see a justification behind it. They are surrounded by inoffensive nations.

[Rudel]

It's interesting to see that Germany and Canada could potentially develop them, although I highly doubt they would.
Germany partially manufactures French bombs, and the US stocks nukes on German soil (though they've been willing to get rid of them for a long time).
German opinion is rather anti-nuclear, I don't see them going that way unless the executive doesn't give a crap. But technically yes, they could have their own bomb.

[The Lively Rock]

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