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  2. Russia and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

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    Russia is one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" (NWS) under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which Russia ratified (as the Soviet Union) in 1968. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of Soviet-era nuclear warheads remained on the territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

  3. Comparison of ICBMs - Wikipedia

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    Russia State Rocket Center Makeyev 9,000 km 35,300 kg 1x 450kt Inactive N/A No Delta III submarine 900m 11 R-29RM: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 8,300 km 40,300 kg 4x 200kt Inactive 1982 Yes Delta IV submarine: 550m 12 R-29RMU Sineva: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 11,547 km 40 300 kg 4x 500kt Active 2004 Yes (4)

  4. Nuclear weapon yield - Wikipedia

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    Comparative fireball radii for a selection of nuclear weapons. [citation needed] Contrary to the image, which may depict the initial fireball radius, the maximum average fireball radius of Castle Bravo, a 15-megatonne yield surface burst, is 3.3 to 3.7 km (2.1 to 2.3 mi), [6] [7] and not the 1.42 km displayed in the image.

  5. Factbox-Russia's nuclear arsenal: how big is it, and who ...

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    Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. Putin controls about 5,580 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American ...

  6. Column: Putin's threat of a nuclear strike on Ukraine may not ...

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    Russia's Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine. The U.S. response need not be nuclear in return.

  7. List of nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

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    The components of a B83 nuclear bomb used by the United States. This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. . The United States, Russia, China and India are known to possess a nuclear triad, being capable to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea and

  8. Russia fires missiles to simulate 'massive' response to a ...

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    Russia is the world's largest nuclear power. Together, Russia and the U.S. control 88% of the world's nuclear warheads. U.S. officials say they have seen no change to Russia's nuclear deployment ...

  9. RS-28 Sarmat - Wikipedia

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    The RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат, [7] named after the Sarmatians; [8] NATO reporting name: SS-X-29 [9] or SS-X-30 [10]), often colloquially referred to as Satan II by media outlets, is a three-stage Russian silo-based, liquid-fueled, HGV-capable and FOBS-capable super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau.