The nuclear status of the world is that nobody would like to use them anymore. Why do countries use nuclear weapons if they know the damage is devastating? Why try to make new atomic bombs if the old ones were devastating. With the new technology it would be twice as devastating.

The original five nuclear powers are China, Russia, United Kingdom, France and the U.S.A. In the past few years other countries like Pakistan and India have become Nuclear Powers. By around 1985 the destructive power of nuclear weapons was 22,000 megatons (22 billion tons; TNT equivalent). This is almost the exact equal to 1,470,000 bombs of the type dropped on Hiroshima. Based on some simple calculations this volume is enough to kill over 200 billion people, or the present population of the planet more than 34 times over.

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Nuclear weapons are broadly classified as strategic weapons or tactical devices. In general those that produce explosions are strategic weapons, and the ones that create smaller explosions are tactical weapons. Submarine launched missiles and strategic bombers that can directly attack enemies’ homelands are also classified as strategic nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are mostly composed of the weapon (warhead or bomb) and its delivery device and its guidance system. Nuclear weapons include "nuclear" (hydrogen) bombs and "nuclear" (uranium). The hydrogen bombs are thousands of times stronger than the bomb type dropped on Hiroshima. The Nuclear weapons started with atomic bombs and now has shifted to nuclear weapons

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