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Revision as of 20:28, 27 April 2004 by Rmhermen (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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 said to have around 19,000 nuclear power weapons stockpiled in 2002 with perhaps only 8,500 of them operational. Russia had met its treaty obligations by destroying 1% of its chemical agents by the Chemical Weapons Convention's 2002 deadline but requested technical and financial assistance and extensions on further deadlines.
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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