nuclear stockpile
Nation's warhead collection
A nuclear stockpile is a country's arsenal of nuclear weapons held in reserve.
The term typically refers to the accumulated warheads maintained by nuclear powers: The treaty aimed to reduce both nations' nuclear stockpiles.
During the Cold War, the American and Soviet stockpiles grew to tens of thousands of weapons.
Countries guard information about their stockpiles closely, making exact counts difficult to verify.
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- arsenalStockpile of munitions
- weapons gradeSuitable for armaments
- deterrentThing that discourages action
- missileSelf-guided airborne weapon
atomic · hydrogen · bomb · silo · plutonium · uranium · megaton · fallout · ground zero · mushroom cloud · Cold War · arms race · doomsday clock · treaty · proliferation · arms control · ICBM · bunker
- reservesreserve, reserves, bank reserves, cash reserves, fuel reserve
- Federal Propertyfederal buildings, federal land, federal prisons, military bases, national forests
- Nuclear Armsnukes, atom bomb, hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, arms race
- nuclear securitynon-proliferation, nonproliferation, weapons inspectors, uranium enrichment, plutonium
- nuclear weaponsatomic bomb, atom bomb, warheads, hydrogen bomb, a-bomb
- Nuclear Treatiesarms reduction, treaty signing, treaty compliance, bilateral talks, on-site inspection
nuclear stockpilenuclear disarmament
Reducing atomic weapon stockpiles
denuclearization · disarmament · nuclear-free zone · demilitarization · arms reduction
nuclear stockpilenuclear power plant
Fission-based electricity facility
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