Nuclear disarmament
The international community needs to make progress towards the goal of nuclear disarmament—and, eventually, persuade all of the existing nuclear weapon states give up their weapons.
- There are believed to be at least 23,000 nuclear warheads still in existence, with a combined blast capacity equivalent to 150,000 Hiroshima bombs.
- The vast majority (over 22,000) are possessed by the the U.S. and Russia—with France, the UK, China, India, Pakistan and Israel around 1,000 between them.
- Almost half of all warheads are still operationally deployed—with the U.S. and Russia each having over 2,000 weapons ready to be launched within a decision window of just 4-8 minutes for each president in the event of perceived attack.