Darrius, Jorge, Jackie (U.K)

Category: Weapons of Mass Destruction

independently tested first nuclear weapon (operation hurricane) in October 1952

one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" (NWS) under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (ratified in 1968)

an approx of about 165, consisting of 144 deployed weapons plus an extra 15 percent as spares

tested about 44-45 weapons