Together, they hold nearly 25,000 nuclear warheads 96 of the global nuclear arsenal.

Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

Moreover, the region s greatest threat North Korea s nuclear arsenal endangers all three countries.

Pakistan has doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal in the last five years.

So, to build a credible nuclear arsenal, Iran would need a decade or longer.

Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether.

It had ignored and defied all resolutions on the subject, developing its own nuclear arsenal.

Israel has never acknowledged having nuclear weapons, let alone the size and scope of its arsenal.

And, most significant, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the vast nuclear arsenal remained intact.

(d) Certain nuclear weapon States must stop avoiding their Treaty obligations and refrain from justifying the existence of Israel's nuclear programme and arsenal.

The US media and government focus their rhetoric on the possibility of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal falling into Taliban hands.

Major downsizing of the US nuclear arsenal, which President Barack Obama wants to achieve, will become politically more difficult.

Since the end of the cold war, NATO has significantly reduced the number of tactical nuclear weapons in its arsenal.

But Russia has made clear that it does not plan to pursue further reductions to its nuclear arsenal any time soon.

A toxic nuclear dump can very easily serve as an arsenal for terrorists in their quest for weapons of mass destruction.

Who used nuclear bombs first? Who continues to maintain a large nuclear arsenal and even spreads I say, spreads nuclear weapons outside its own borders? The answer is crystal clear it is the United States.

The EU calls on China to join the other nuclear weapon States in declaring a moratorium on the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and to abstain from any increase in its nuclear arsenal.

My own country, South Africa, gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 1990 s, realizing it was better off without these weapons.

In East Asia, North Korea has gone nuclear and is set to add a whole new class of uranium bombs to its arsenal.

In addition, the military s role as guarantor of stability, and its tight control of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal, the army s crown jewels, will continue.

Israeli newspapers regularly carry stories about why Israel may need to attack Iran to prevent it from acquiring an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

It had been almost 11 years since Ukraine's landmark decision to forswear what had been the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

As a State that has voluntarily renounced its nuclear arsenal the fourth largest in the world Kazakhstan is actively involved in negotiations to establish a nuclear weapon free zone in Central Asia.

Israel has never acknowledged having nuclear weapons, let alone the size and scope of its arsenal. Israeli policymakers refuse to talk about the subject.

So we stand today with a still fully armed nuclear arsenal among many countries around the world, but a very different set of circumstances.

Now the world's attention is focussed on Iran, one recipient of Pakistani technology, as the country seemingly keenest to create its own nuclear arsenal.

Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether. Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

During the Cold War, the project expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the more than 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

I have no doubt that India s political leaders are just as responsible in handling their country s arsenal as leaders of the five original nuclear powers.

China might be willing to make a unilateral, but enforceable, commitment not to augment its nuclear arsenal, if Russia and the US reduce theirs further.

While elimination did take place in the former Soviet Republics, the Kremlin hung on to its nuclear arsenal the last vestige of Russia s former superpower status.

Although there had been several unofficial statements by Kim Jong Il s regime admitting that North Korea possessions nuclear arsenal, the announcement was the first official confirmation.

Part of the Israeli nuclear arsenal is being shifted to sea, with atomic warheads on diesel submarines, to prevent their being targeted in a surprise attack.

There are also genuine questions regarding the ability of a state like Pakistan to control and secure its nuclear arsenal in the event of internal disruption.

Olmert seemed to be reminding the Iranians of the hard realities of nuclear deterrence Iran may join the nuclear club someday, but it will return to the Stone Age if it uses those weapons against a country that has a far more advanced nuclear arsenal.

And from 1949 to 1985 was an extraordinary time of a buildup of a nuclear arsenal that no one could possibly have imagined back in the 1940s.

The nuclear arsenal of those States which are not parties to the Treaty is a serious topic of concern, with regard to Article VI of the Treaty.

The first is to rely on deterrence and live with an Iran that has a small nuclear arsenal or the ability to assemble one with little advance notice.

The existence of the facility seems as clear a declaration as possible that the regime is committed to achieving the capacity to intimidate its neighbors with its nuclear arsenal.

It was essential that the nuclear weapon States should reduce their arsenal in a progressive, systematic, irreversible, transparent and measurable manner, thus proving that they were respecting their obligations.

After all, the current strategy has not really worked either as a deterrent against conventional attacks (which persisted throughout the years that Israel supposedly developed its nuclear arsenal) or as a warning to rivals (such as Iran) against developing a nuclear weapon.

If North Korea is, indeed, continuing to develop not only its nuclear arsenal, but also various types of ballistic missiles, in defiance of international commitments, it is truly a rogue state.

Kim s hope must be that, by showing off his nuclear arsenal, he can bully the US, Japan, and South Korea into helping him to resolve some of his regime s domestic crises.

Major downsizing of the US nuclear arsenal, which President Barack Obama wants to achieve, will become politically more difficult. America s tentative steps toward reducing the role of nuclear weapons in its overall security strategy, including defending its regional allies, will be harder to implement.

Indeed, the Socialists opposed de Gaulle s decision to withdraw France from NATO s unified military command, opposed the creation of an independent French nuclear arsenal (they preferred the American nuclear guarantee), and were hostile to de Gaulle s rupture with Israel after the Six Day War.