| Revision as of 15:34, 22 April 2004 editGet-back-world-respect (talk | contribs)4,584 edits you cannot take a UK statement as a fact. Do you have any source about how much is destroyed today? I explained the change of the deadlineS wording already← Previous edit | Revision as of 15:38, 22 April 2004 edit undoRmhermen (talk | contribs)Administrators62,561 editsNo edit summaryNext edit → | ||
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Russia possesses one of the two largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in the world (the United States possess the other). Russia declared an arsenal of 40,000 tons of chemical weapons in 1997 and is sadi to have around 19,000 nuclear power weapons stockpiled in 2002 with perhaps only 8,500 of them operational. Russia had destroyed 1% of its chemical agents by the Chemical Weapons Convention's 2002 deadline but requested technical and financial assistance and extensions on further deadlines.
Related articles
- The United States and weapons of mass destruction
- The United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
- France and weapons of mass destruction
- China and weapons of mass destruction
- Israel and weapons of mass destruction
External links:
- Abolishing Weapons of Mass Destruction: Addressing Cold War and Other Wartime Legacies in the Twenty-First Century By Mikhail S. Gorbachev
- Nuclear Threat Initiative on Russia
- UK statement on the chemical weapons convention
- [1999 Nuclear stockpile estimate
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