{"id":230,"date":"2010-02-05T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=230"},"modified":"2010-02-05T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:13:45","slug":"nuclearweapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/nuclearweapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries with nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>War is not healthy for children and other living beings!<\/strong><\/em> Yet there are some 20,000 active nuclear weapons that can be fired within a moment&#8217;s notice. Although about 45,000 nuclear weapons have been decommissioned they have only been partly dismantled and still pose a serious threat. This is a list of countries with the most weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Weapons<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>13,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>United States<\/td>\n<td>9,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<td>240<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>United Kingdom<\/td>\n<td>185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Israel<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>India<\/td>\n<td>70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Pakistan<\/td>\n<td>65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>North Korea<\/td>\n<td>&lt;10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/nuclear\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/graphics\/war\/nuke.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear explosion\" width=\"180\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: #cc0000;font-size: xx-small\">Nuclear bomb &#8211; man&#8217;s worst invention<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/nuclear\/\">Lost nuclear weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/\">United Nations Disarmament Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War is not healthy for children and other living beings! Yet there are some 20,000 active nuclear weapons that can be fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[173,249],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war","tag-nuclear","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}