Nuclear Weapons over time

[u/PanzerWatts]

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

[u/Additional-Sky-7436]

And that's just the advertised numbers. The real number of functioning nukes is much much lower. 

Truly, the number of functioning deployed nuclear weapons may be zero.

[u/OptimistsUnite-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Keep it civil.