How effective can nuclear weapons be in war?

As the most lethal weapon in the world today, nuclear weapons have always been valued by all countries in the world for their stocks and actual combat capability.

Nuclear bomb explosion mushroom cloud

1945 16 In July, the United States successfully tested the world's first atomic bomb, and dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August of the same year. This is the first time that mankind has used nuclear weapons, and it is also the only time that nuclear weapons have been used so far.

US-Soviet nuclear hegemony

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought for hegemony. As the United States was the only nuclear possessor in the world at that time, the Soviet Union was at a disadvantage in the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviet Union began its own nuclear program, which was successfully exploded on August 29th, 1949/KLOC-0, becoming the second country with nuclear weapons in the world. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia took over most of the Soviet nuclear arsenal.

Since then, many countries in the world have successively completed nuclear tests.

1952 10, the British nuclear test was successful;

1960 February, French nuclear test was successful;

1964 10, China successfully tested the first atomic bomb;

1974 in may, India's nuclear test succeeded;

1May 1998, Pakistan's nuclear test was successful;

In June 5438 +2006 10, North Korea announced that it had successfully conducted an underground nuclear test.

Israel became a nuclear weapon possessor in the late 1960s, but it never made a public statement.

Iran has been engaged in nuclear projects for a long time. Although there is no public record that it possesses nuclear weapons, it is not far from possessing nuclear weapons.

Although there is no evidence that Germany and Japan have carried out nuclear programs, both countries have a deep grasp of nuclear technology, and most countries believe that the two countries can complete nuclear tests in a short time;

Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine all belong to the former Soviet Union. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the three countries destroyed nuclear weapons to dispel the concerns of western countries.

South Africa announced in 1993 that it had destroyed its nuclear weapons in 199 1, and was the only country that successfully possessed nuclear weapons and voluntarily destroyed them.

In addition, according to the available information, the United States has deployed nuclear warheads in five European countries, including Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, to guard against a sudden Russian attack.

Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

Although many countries in the world have nuclear weapons, according to the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which came into effect in 1970, all subsequent nuclear programs are illegal. That is to say, except for the five permanent members of the United Nations, namely, the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France, all other countries with nuclear weapons are illegal. However, many nuclear weapons are illegal because of mutual restraint, different ideas and the great power of nuclear weapons.