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• Singapore's newspaper The Straits Times dated 21.10.02
  THE NUCLEAR CLUB
  Here is a list of nuclear-armed countries and their arsenals, according to independent experts at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Centre for Defence Information and the Monetary Institute for International Studies:
  
  United States
  About 6,000 strategic (intercontinental range) nuclear weapons; 1,670 to 3,300 tactical (short-range) nuclear weapons.
  Russia
  About 5,500 strategic; 3,000 to 4,000 tactical
  China
  About 400 strategic and tactical
  France
  384 strategic
  Britain
  185 strategic
  India
  30 to 100
  Pakistan
  15 to 50
  Israel
  100 to 200
  North Korea
  1 to 2