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The status of nuclear forces (estimated, as of January 2024)

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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), who signed the MOU with Hiroshima Prefecture, launches the SIPRI YEARBOOK 2024 and announces the latest status of nuclear forces.

As of January 2024, the total number of nuclear stockpile is 12,121. It decreases 391 compared with the number for January 2023. The U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles together continue to constitute around 90 percent of the total.

The SIPRI Yearbook analyzes that the declining “is only due to the USA and Russia dismantling retired warheads. Global reductions of operational warheads appear to have stalled, and their numbers are rising again.”

While the total numbers of the U.S. and Russian nuclear weapon decrease, Russia increases the number of deployed warheads. China increases 90 warheads and “might have started to deploy a small number of its warheads (24) on their launchers.” India and North Korea grow the size of their nuclear weapon inventories. North Korea has assembled perhaps 50 warheads, though it “might have produced enough fissile material to build up to 90 nuclear warheads”.

Country	Deployed warheads	Stored warheads	Retired warheads	Total inventory (As of January 2024)	Total inventory (As of January 2023)
U.S.	1,770	1,938	1,336	5,044	5,244
Russia	1,710	2,670	1,200	5,580	5,889
U.K.	120	105	–	225	225
France	280	10	..	290	290
China	24	476	–	500	410
India	–	172	..	172	164
Pakistan	–	170	..	170	170
Israel	–	90	..	90	90
North Korea	–	50	..	50	30
Total	3,904	5,681	2,536	12,121	12,512