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20 Years Of India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Does Delhi Need To Reset Its Nuke Policy With Growing Economic & Military Might
By N. C. Bipindra for EurAsian Times
India officially declared itself a nuclear weapons state in May 1998 following the ‘Shakti’ nuclear tests in the Rajasthan desert, popularly called Pokhran-II.
But it spelled out its official nuclear doctrine for the first time publicly in January 2003 through a media statement issued by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) after a meeting of the Cabinet…
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Status of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty of 1996.
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) began its substantive negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty in January 1994 within the framework of an Ad Hoc Committee established for that purpose. Although the CD had long been involved with the issue of a test-ban, only in 1982 did it establish a subsidiary body on the item. Disagreement over a mandate for that body blocked tangible progress for years.
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Extensive damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia “could not have occurred by accident” and appears to be the result of a “deliberate … external act”, Finnish authorities have said.
“It is likely that the damage to both the gas pipeline and the communication cable is the result of external activity,” the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, said on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, adding that the cause of the damage was not yet clear.
Local media cited unnamed government sources as saying Russian sabotage was suspected, while regional security experts said a Russian survey vessel had recently been observed making repeated visits to the vicinity of the Balticconnector pipeline.
Niinistö said the government was “in contact with our allies and partners” and that Finland was “prepared, and our readiness is good”, adding that the incident, uncovered early on Sunday morning, had “no effect on our energy supply security”.
Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the transatlantic military alliance was “ready to share information about the destruction of Finnish and Estonian underwater infrastructure” and to “support its allies”.
Markku Hassinen, of the Finnish border guard, said no seismic activity had been recorded in the Gulf of Finland before the discovery of the Balticconnector damage, but “vessels from several different countries” had been monitored in the area. But seismologists at Norsar, Norway’s national datacentre for the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty (CTBT), confirmed late on Tuesday that they had registered a “probable explosion” at 1.20 am on Sunday.
Both countries’ gas network operators on Sunday reported an unusual drop in pressure in the bi-directional, 48-mile (77km) pipeline, which runs across the seabed of the Gulf of Finland from Inkoo in Finland to Paldiski in Estonia. The state-owned Finnish operator, Gasgrid, said the pipeline had been shut down immediately because of a suspected leak, adding that the country’s gas system was stable, with supply secured through a floating liquefied fossil gas terminal.
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If anybody's wondering why the comprehensive multilateral treaty to ban nuclear testings and explosions in any environment is going to shit :)
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News Roundup 11/6/2023 | The Libertarian Institute
Here is your daily roundup of today's news:
News Roundup 11/6/2023
by Kyle Anzalone
Ukraine
Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Gen. Valery Zaluzhny acknowledged in comments to The Economist that the war in Ukraine is a stalemate and that there will “most likely” be no Ukrainian breakthrough. AWC
A top Ukrainian official said Kiev is seeking to become one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world. The statement comes as the Biden administration has begun pushing Ukraine to engage in talks with Russia on ending the war. Ukraine developing a large weapons industry and selling those arms to the enemies of Russia will likely interfere with any deals to end the conflict. The Institute
The US rolled out its 50th weapons package for Ukraine. The arms shipment will include air defenses, artillery rounds, and anti-armor weapons. The Pentagon will purchase $300 million in arms on behalf of Kyiv, depleting all the funds in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). AWC
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill into law that formally withdrew Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). AWC
Israel
During a trip to Israel, America’s top diplomat pushed Tel Aviv to agree to limited “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid into Gaza and facilitate negotiations for Hamas to release prisoners. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said there would not be a temporary pause in the fighting. AWC
Despite the massive bombing campaign and ground invasion in Gaza, a senior Pentagon official believes Israel has not come close to taking out Hamas’s leadership, The New York Times reported Saturday. AWC
The Pentagon has acknowledged that the US is flying drones over Gaza to help Israel locate hostages, demonstrating deep US involvement in the war. AWC
Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu on Sunday said that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was an option for Israel and claimed there are no innocent civilians in the enclave. AWC
The House on Thursday passed a bill to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in military aid, a strong show of support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed over 9,000 people so far. AWC
Twenty-seven days into Israel’s brutal bombing campaign, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) became the first member of the US Senate to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. AWC
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), dismissed the idea there are “innocent Palestinian civilians” in a debate on the House floor. AWC
Middle East
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution that suggested the US would use force against Iran in the future in the name of preventing the country from acquiring nuclear weapons. AWC
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday amid a spate of attacks on US troops in the region over US support for Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. AWC
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Brazil pays off its debt to UN and other multilateral institutions
Brazil announced Thursday that it had paid off its debts to major international institutions, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the World Trade Organization, and the World Health Organization. In a joint statement issued by the Foreign Affairs and Planning ministries, Brazil said it had repaid BRL 4.6 billion (USD 937 million) in debt to international institutions in 2023. This includes BRL 289 million to the UN and a separate BRL 1.1 billion to UN peacekeeping operations.
The payments ensure that Brazil will maintain its voting rights in bodies such as the UN, as well as restore its right to vote in the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Putin signed the cancellation of nuclear test treaty ratification
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Thursday, cancelling Russia’s ratification of a key nuclear treaty and allowing new atomic weapons tests.
Putin stated that cancelling Russia’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CNTBT) merely “mirrors” the position of the United States, which signed but never ratified the treaty.
Both houses of the Russian parliament approved the cancellation of ratification unanimously, and then Putin signed the final approval, according to Russian media.
Russian officials explained that withdrawing from the treaty does not mean resuming nuclear testing. Moscow will only conduct tests if the United States decides to do the same, however, the Kremlin’s decision has raised concerns among analysts.
Russia ratified the treaty in 2000, and the US is one of several countries that had never ratified the ban, including other nuclear powers such as China, India and Pakistan.
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The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, which Moscow said would put it on par with the United States.
Wednesday's test used chemicals and radioisotopes to "validate new predictive explosion models" that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy.
"These experiments advance our efforts to develop new technology in support of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation goals," Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, said in a statement. "They will help reduce global nuclear threats by improving the detection of underground nuclear explosive tests.
The test is notable because of its timing. Russian lawmakers announced their intention to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
A bill will go to the Russian upper house, the Federation Council, which will consider it next week. Federation Council lawmakers have already said they will support the bill.
The treaty, adopted in 1996, bans all nuclear explosions anywhere in the world, although it has never fully entered into force. In addition to the U.S., it is yet to be ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt.
American officials have said more transparency is needed because while the U.S. and Russia don’t test warheads, they do conduct so-called sub-critical experiments — explosions that verify weapon designs without the amount of atomic material needed to sustain a chain reaction, the Bloomberg report said.
There are widespread concerns that Russia could resume nuclear tests to try to discourage the West its continued support of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that while some experts have talked about the need to conduct nuclear tests, he hasn’t yet formed an opinion on the issue.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said last week that Moscow will continue to respect the ban and will only resume nuclear tests if Washington does so first.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia may consider withdrawing its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Elena Chernenko, special correspondent for Kommersant, wrote that Putin said the following:
Experts say that with new weapons it’s necessary to make sure the warhead will work without failures, and that [nuclear] tests should be carried out. I’m not ready to say now whether we need to conduct [nuclear] tests or not, but it’s possible to mirror the actions of the United States when they signed, but didn’t ratify [the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty] — while we signed and ratified it, is possible in principle. But this is a question for the deputies of the State Duma. Theoretically, it’s possible to withdraw the ratification [of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treat], if we do this, it will be quite enough.
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Nuclear non-proliferation, still an age old problem.
The Treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) was signed in 1968 and entered into force on 5 March 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. With 191 states as signatories to the treaty it is the most significant treaty to stop the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. However, some nuclear states like India, Pakistan, Israel and the newly formed state of South Sudan are not signatories to the NPT.
With only five nuclear weapon states having signed the treaty, it is at the centre of a lot of international politics. China, France, Russia, U.K and the U.S.A are the only countries recognized by the treaty as Nuclear weapon states. They also happen to be the P5 or the Permanent Five at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
At the heart of this dispute is how the treaty defines a nuclear weapons state and differentiates it from a non-nuclear weapons state thus dividing the world into nuclear haves and have-nots. A Nuclear-weapon state is defined as those that manufactured and exploded a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device before 1 January 1967. Articles 2 and 4 of the treaty requires countries to give up any present or future plans to build nuclear weapons in return for access to peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
These clauses were enough to keep countries like India away from signing the treaty in 1968. India opposed it, calling it a discriminative disarmament policy and called for the complete ban of nuclear weapons. However, a complete ban was unacceptable to the already nuclear armed nations who were in the midst of an arms race post the Second World War nuclear disasters in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
One of the original signatories to the NPT in 1970 was Iran. But soon the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which is tasked with the implementation of the treaty reported that Iran was not complying with the Agreement and had started its weaponization program in 2003 including a secret project to enrich uranium. Soon the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed between Iran ad six world powers where Iran agreed to inspection in return for sanctions relief. With U.S.A withdrawing from the JCPOA in 2018 Iran warned that it will leave the NPT and started to enrich its uranium.
Another case is of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or North Korea which had ratified the NPT in 1985 but announced in 2003 that it would no longer be bound by the treaty. We see everyday reports of Kim Jung Un overseeing the testing of nuclear missiles which are aimed at Seoul. North Korea’s withdrawal constitutes a significant challenge to the NPT as it has been the first and only country to withdraw from the NPT. No amount of sanctions by the international comunity is able to deter it from the path to becoming a nuclear-weapon state.
The NPT rests on the three pillars of – disarmament, non-proliferation and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. But disarmament has been one of its biggest failures. There is also no progress in including the remaining nuclear weapons possessors, India, Pakistan and Isreal into the treaty. The peaceful use of nuclear energy is also easier said than done. The world has seen plenty of nuclear accidents post the signing of the treaty like Fukushima (2011), Chernobyl (1986), Three Mile Island (1979). It is argued that to reduce global warming, the world needs more non-carbon emitting nuclear energy, and the IAEA and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD project a major increase in nuclear energy use as a result of concerns over global warming.
The peaceful use of nuclear energy can also pose risks like cancer, meltdown risk, weapons proliferation risk, toxic nuclear waste, nuclear accidents, etc. Hence we can safely say that the original demand made by India that nuclear weapons should be completely banned, is one of the most foolproof ways in which we can prevent disasters and save humanity. Treaties like the NPT which have been designed for the comfort of few nuclear armed nations to lord over the developing and less developed nations need to be completely revamped and this kind of discrimination should be brought to a halt.
The NPT at Fifty: Successes and Failures
North Korea and the NPT
Iran and the NPT
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Poetin: ‘Rusland klaar voor kernoorlog vanuit militair-technisch oogpunt’
De Russische president Vladimir Poetin heeft het Westen voor de zoveelste keer gewaarschuwd dat zijn land “klaar is voor een nucleaire oorlog” als er westerse troepen naar Oekraïne gestuurd zouden worden.
Rusland zal ook troepen legeren aan de Finse grens, nu dat land lid is geworden van de NAVO. Verschillende landen zoals Frankrijk en Polen zinspeelden de afgelopen weken op een scenario waarbij westerse militairen naar Oekraïne gestuurd zouden worden. Die dreiging, gecombineerd met vermeende Amerikaanse plannen om kernwapentests te hervatten, zorgen ervoor dat Poetin nu dreigt met tegenmaatregelen.
Poetin overweegt om nucleaire tests te starten. Volgens de autoritaire leider van Rusland zijn de Verenigde Staten van Amerika momenteel bezig met het vernieuwen van hun nucleaire strijdmacht. “Dat betekent niet dat ze bereid zijn om een atoomoorlog te starten, maar er zijn wel pogingen van Washington D.C. om de mogelijkheden van nieuwe kernkoppen niet alleen op een computer te doorgronden, maar ook te onderzoeken bij reële tests”, aldus Poetin dinsdagavond in een interview aan staatszender Rossiya 1. “We weten ervan en gaan ook kijken. Het Russisch kernwapenarsenaal is een van de modernste ter wereld.”
De Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties nam in 1996 het alomvattend Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty aan dat alle kernwapentests verbiedt. De Verenigde Staten hebben dat verdrag echter nooit geratificeerd en Rusland trok zijn ratificatie eind 2023 in. Beide grootmachten hebben sinds begin jaren negentig wel uit eigen beweging geen kernwapentesten meer uitgevoerd.
Poetin nuanceerde de dreiging wel meteen. “Zover zal het nog niet meteen komen, want de Verenigde Staten hebben ook begrepen dat ze beter geen manschappen naar Oekraïne sturen. Er zijn daar (in Washington D.C., red.) voldoende specialisten op het vlak van Russisch-Amerikaanse betrekkingen en op het vlak van strategische terughoudendheid”, aldus de president. “Daarom denk ik niet dat we richting een nucleaire confrontatie gaan. Maar vanuit militair-technisch oogpunt zijn we er wel klaar voor.”
Poetin ontkende nogmaals dat Rusland bij de invasie van Oekraïne heeft overwogen om tactische atoomwapens in te zetten. “In technisch opzicht is Rusland ertoe bereid om massavernietigingswapens in te zetten”, aldus Poetin. Maar dat zal volgens de eigen verdedigingsdoctrine pas gebeuren als het om het voortbestaan van de Russische staat gaat en de soevereiniteit en onafhankelijkheid schade wordt toegebracht.
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Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University-led research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.
"The signal changed directions over time, exactly matching a road that runs past the seismometer," said Benjamin Fernando, a planetary seismologist at Johns Hopkins who led the research. "It's really difficult to take a signal and confirm it is not from something. But what we can do is show that there are lots of signals like this, and show they have all the characteristics we'd expect from a truck and none of the characteristics we'd expect from a meteor."
After a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over the Western Pacific in January 2014, the event was linked to ground vibrations recorded at a seismic station in Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. In 2023, materials at the bottom of the ocean near where the meteor fragments were thought to have fallen were identified as of "extraterrestrial technological" (alien) origin.
But according to Fernando, that supposition relies on misinterpreted data and the meteor actually entered the atmosphere somewhere else. Fernando's team did not find evidence of seismic waves from the meteor.
"The fireball location was actually very far away from where the oceanographic expedition went to retrieve these meteor fragments," he said. "Not only did they use the wrong signal, they were looking in the wrong place."
Using data from stations in Australia and Palau designed to detect sound waves from nuclear testing, Fernando's team identified a more likely location for the meteor, more than 100 miles from the area initially investigated. They concluded the materials recovered from the ocean bottom were tiny, ordinary meteorites—or particles produced from other meteorites hitting Earth's surface mixed with terrestrial contamination.
"Whatever was found on the sea floor is totally unrelated to this meteor, regardless of whether it was a natural space rock or a piece of alien spacecraft—even though we strongly suspect that it wasn't aliens," Fernando added.
Fernando's team includes Constantinos Charalambous of Imperial College London; Steve Desch of Arizona State University; Alan Jackson of Towson University; Pierrick Mialle of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization; Eleanor K. Sansom of Curtin University; and Göran Ekström of Columbia University.
IMAGE....The area near the seismic station in Manus Island, based on satellite images acquired on March 24, 2023. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa and Benjamin Fernando/Johns Hopkins University, with imagery from CNES/Airbus via Google
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Rising risk of a full-blown nuclear war: Revelation 16
Rising risk of a full-blown nuclear war
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On the 2nd of November, when the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, revoked Russia’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty which is a global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, the move sent a…
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In this article, we will be looking at 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of the global defense market, you can go directly to 5 Countries with Most Nuclear Weapons in the World.The global defense industry is a rapidly growing industry. Countries around the world are investing in weapons and military equipment, with some nations investing heavily in nuclear weapons modernization and development. Nuclear deterrence remains a cornerstone of national security strategies, and this is creating significant opportunities for businesses involved in the weapons supply chain.The Global Defense Industry: Key Trends and DevelopmentsSeveral nations and international organizations are actively making efforts to dismantle the existing nuclear arsenal while also putting a ban on the design, development, and testing of nuclear bombs and missiles. Despite such efforts, a number of states around the world allocate a notable budget towards the acquisition, maintenance, and development of nuclear weapons.While the nuclear weapons market is specifically focused on the development, production, and maintenance of nuclear weapons, it is a subset of the defense industry. The defense industry encompasses the development, production, and maintenance of weapons and equipment used by militaries around the world. According to a report by Business Research Insights, the global defense market’s value was estimated to be worth $2.15 trillion in 2021. The defense market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5% during 2021-2027, pushing the market to reach $2.89 trillion by the end of the forecast period.In one of our previous articles about countries that export the most weapons in the world, we mentioned that technological advancements, government initiatives, military modernization programs, and growing internal and external security threats are all factors creating a positive outlook for the global defense market. Moreover, growing geopolitical tensions, especially between nuclear forces, such as the US, Russia, and China are driving market growth.Story continuesOn November 2, Reuters reported that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, signed a law to revoke Russia’s ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear testing. The report mentions that some Western arms control experts fear that Russia may be looking to test nuclear weapons in an attempt to intimidate and create fear in the middle of the Russia-Ukraine war. However, Russian diplomats have said that Russia will not resume nuclear weapons tests unless the United States does. Moscow also said that its pulling out of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is only to bring Russia in line with the US, which signed but never ratified the treaty.According to a publication by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), nine states with nuclear weapons spent $82.9 billion in 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine also began in 2022. The spending witnessed an overall increase of $2.5 billion from the previous year. The US spent around $43.7 billion in 2022, which is more than the spending of all the other nuclear armed states combined.A report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) also shows that the total global military expenditure increased by 3.7% to reach a record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022. The US, China, and Russia, were the three biggest spenders as they accounted for about 56% of the world’s total expenditure. The three of the largest spending countries also have some of the strongest armies in the world. Increased spending on weapons and equipment means that there are significant opportunities for corporations operating in the defense industry.Major Players in the Global Defense IndustryThe prominent players operating in the global defense industry include L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX), Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), and Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX).
Based in the US, Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX) is one of the largest aerospace and defense corporations in the world. On October 26, Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX) announced that it is teaming up with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to build a manufacturing facility in East Camden, Arkansas, for the production of the Tamir missile for Israel’s Iron Dome Weapon System and its US variant, SkyHunter. The two companies have committed to a $33 million capital investment to construct the new facility. The facility, when operational, will produce missiles for the US Marine Corps as well as other allied partners.On November 2, L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX) announced that it has been awarded a contract worth $80 million from the US Navy to continue developing advanced systems to modernize electronic warfare (EW) capabilities on F/A-18 aircraft. Under the contract, L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX) will be developing a next generation electronic warfare (EW) system for the Navy’s F/A-18 fleet while also upgrading pilot protection against emerging and future threats. The announcement also mentions that L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX) has been providing innovative EW capabilities to the US Air Force as well as to other allied air services around the world for more than 60 years.Winning defense contracts can generate significant revenue for defense companies. On September 25, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) announced that it has been awarded an approximately $705 million contract by the US Air Force to deliver the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), an air-to-ground missile. During the next 3 years, the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) will further develop the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) and conduct platform integration while also completing the flight test program for rapid prototyping in preparation for rapid fielding.On October 26, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) reported strong earnings for the fiscal third quarter of 2023. The company reported earnings per share (EPS) of $6.18, surpassing EPS estimates by $0.38. The company reported a revenue of $9.78 billion and outperformed revenue estimates by $218.17 million.Now that we have looked at what some of the major companies in the defense industry are up to, let’s take a look at 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world.10 Countries with Most Nuclear Weapons in the WorldCopyright: scanrail / 123RF Stock PhotoMethodologyIn this article, we have ranked 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world. To compile a list of countries with nuclear weapons, we consulted the Federation of American Scientists. This database provided us with a list of nine countries and their estimated nuclear warhead inventories. We also used a separate publication by the Federation of American Scientists that provided us with data on the 5 NATO members that host US nuclear weapons on their territory and their respective shares. We narrowed down our selection to rank 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world based on the number of nuclear warheads, which are listed below in ascending order.10 Countries with Most Nuclear Weapons in the World10. North KoreaNuclear Warheads: 30First up on our list of 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world is North Korea with an estimated 30 nuclear warheads. To demonstrate its nuclear capabilities, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test underground on October 9, 2006. All 30 nuclear warheads of North Korea are believed to be non-deployed and in the custody of the military.Some of the top companies in the global defense industry to consider researching and investing in include L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX), Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), and Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX).9. ItalyNuclear Warheads: 35Italy is the only country in our list of 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world that does not produce or possess nuclear weapons of its own.
Instead, Italy is one of five NATO members that host US nuclear warheads on their territory as part of a nuclear-sharing agreement. According to a publication by the Federation of American Scientists, Italy hosts 35 nuclear weapons as of 2022. Italy hosts the highest number of nuclear warheads out of the 5 NATO members that host US nuclear weapons on their territory.8. IsraelNuclear Warheads: 90Israel does not admit nor deny having nuclear weapons, but it is universally believed to possess weapons of mass destruction. It is believed to be a nuclear-armed country despite not being recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Estimates made by the US intelligence community suggest that Israel has a nuclear stockpile of approximately 90 warheads.7. IndiaNuclear Warheads: 164In 1974, India tested its first nuclear device as a peaceful nuclear explosion. According to the most recent reported data, India has an estimated 164 nuclear warheads. All the nuclear warheads of India are non-deployed and in the custody of the military.6. PakistanNuclear Warheads: 170Pakistan became a nuclear weapon state when it conducted nuclear tests in May 1998, almost 24 years after India's first nuclear test. India and Pakistan have a complex and often hostile relationship, despite the fact that both the countries are nuclear powers. With an estimated 170 nuclear warheads, Pakistan ranks higher than India on our list of 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world. Pakistan and India are also among the nations that are thought to be increasing their stockpiles.L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHX), Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), and Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE:RTX) are some of the leading manufacturers of advanced weapons and military equipment.Click to continue reading and see 5 Countries with Most Nuclear Weapons in the World.Suggested Articles:Disclosure: None. 10 Countries with Most Nuclear Weapons in the World is published on Insider Monkey.
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Russia test fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile
Context: Russia has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile “Bulava” capable of carrying nuclear warheads from one of its submarines. The 12-metre-long missile has a range of over 8,000 kilometres.
The launch comes just days after the Russian withdrew its ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in a move Russia argued was needed to bring its position in line with the United…
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