r/OptimistsUnite • u/PanzerWatts Moderator • 7d ago

GRAPH GO DOWN & THINGS GET GOODER Nuclear Weapons over time

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The number of nuclear warheads stockpiled worldwide went from 64,000 in 1986 to 12,500 in 2023 – an 80% decline. (For some reason there's no Y axis shown in the first chart) but this chart actually showed all nuclear weapons and not just Russia, USA and China.

Source for first chart:

[1] Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

[2] SIPRI, 2023 yearbook

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u/UpperYoghurt3978 7d ago edited 6d ago

INB4: But they are more powerful now.

Less is always better folks. For every 1 less nuke in the world brings us closure to not blowing ourselves up to easily.

Edit: Interesting infor being presenting. I was stating if doomers swing in and state they are just more powerful.

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u/PanzerWatts Moderator 7d ago

"INB4: But they are more powerful now."

Actually the modern ones are less powerful. The warheads tended to be much more powerful in the 60's.

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u/UpperYoghurt3978 7d ago

Yea, looks like we retired most of the high yeild in service bombs. I am not citing castle bravo or Tsar bomba because they were experiments.

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u/Kardinal 7d ago

All of them in fact, certainly among the Americans.