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    the government ran a clandestine nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian defence research at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute...
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    Japan had several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Like the similar...
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    the Biological Weapons Convention since 1975, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons since 1991, and the Chemical Weapons Convention since...
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    North Korea has a nuclear weapons program, and, as of 2024[update], is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient production...
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    Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War...
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    Pakistan is one of nine states that possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan is not party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. As of 2025, multiple unofficial...
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    The Italian nuclear weapons program was an effort by Italy to develop nuclear weapons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Italian scientists such as Enrico...
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    possesses nuclear weapons and previously developed chemical weapons. Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its nuclear arsenal...
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    Sweden had programs for both nuclear and chemical weapons. During the first decades of the Cold War, a nuclear weapons program was active. No weapon was...
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    possesses nuclear weapons. It was the last to develop them of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...
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  • The Swedish nuclear weapons program was eventually shut down, however, and Sweden signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1968. Six nuclear reactors...
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    three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...
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    are known to possess a nuclear triad, being capable to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea and air. American nuclear weapons of all types – bombs, warheads...
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    understood to possess nuclear weapons, though only eight formally acknowledge possessing them. In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United...
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    during the military regime, Brazil had a secret program intended to develop nuclear weapons. The program was dismantled in 1990, five years after the military...
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    Taiwan pursued a number of weapons of mass destruction programs from 1949 to the late 1980s. The final secret nuclear weapons program was shut down in the late...
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    Saab 36 (category Nuclear weapons program of Sweden)
    able to carry an 800 kg free-falling nuclear weapon, but the Swedish nuclear weapons program was cancelled in the 1960s; the plans for the bomber had been...
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  • This timeline of nuclear weapons development is a chronological catalog of the evolution of nuclear weapons rooting from the development of the science...
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    programs that could lead to internationally proscribed weapons. This included weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons)...
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    Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries, particularly those not recognized as nuclear-weapon states by the Treaty...
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    nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament...
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    Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear...
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    the new weapons of mass destruction? At the time, nuclear weapons had not been developed fully. Japan conducted research on biological weapons, and chemical...
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    Under a military dictatorship, Argentina began a nuclear weapons program in the early 1980s, but this was abolished in 1983 after the return to civilian...
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    believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a nuclear-weapon state by the Treaty...
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    nine countries possess nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and six more agree to nuclear sharing. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction, and...
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    of nuclear weapons. Besides nuclear testing site, Kazakhstan was the most significant site for Soviet military where its biological weapons program under...
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    produce a nuclear weapon. However, it has not opted to make one. South Korea has continued on a stated policy of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons since...
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    1922–1991, once hosted Soviet nuclear weapons and delivery systems on its territory. The former Soviet Union had its nuclear program expanded to only four of...
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    Poland is not known or believed to possess weapons of mass destruction. During the Cold War, Soviet nuclear warheads were stockpiled in Poland and designated...
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