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Military Powers
 
Nuclear Armed States
 Nuclear Weapons by Country
Country Year Warheads
USA 1945  5,113
USSR (Russia from 1991) 1949 12,000 (2010 est.)
UK 1952 225 (2011)
France 1960 350 (unconfirmed)
China 1964 240 (2009)
India 1974 100-120 (2011 est.)
Israel 1979 300-400? 
Pakistan 1998 100-110 (2011 est.)
North Korea 2006 6-8 (unconfirmed)
Nations suspected of developing WMD
Japan 1952? Unknown
Iran 2005? Existence unproven  
Myanmar 2007? Existence unproven  
Nations formaly developing Nucear Weapons Year Terminated
Albania 1970s 1993-2007
Algeria 1980s 1995
Argenina 1978 1983
Australia 1955 1970
Belarus 1949 1996
Brazil 1978 1990
China (Taiwan) 1967 1988
Egypt 1950s 1967
Iraq 1970s 1981-1991
Kazakhstan 1949 1996
Libya 1970s 2003
Poland 1960 1991
Romania 1980 1990-2003
South Africa 1979 1994
South Korea 1970 1975
Sweden 1960s 1972
Switzerland 1950s 1969
Ukraine 1949 1996
Yugoslavia 1960s 1999
Nations hosting Nuclear Weapons Ended Capable of developing
Belgium No
Canada 1984 Yes
Cuba 1962 No
Germany Yes
Greece 2001 No
Italy Yes
Lithuania Yes
Mexico Yes
Netherlands Yes
Saudi Arabia Yes
South Korea 1991 No
Turkey No
Nations with the Largest Armed Forces
USA
China
Russia (USSR)
India
Pakistan
Yugoslavia (to 1991)
Iran
South Korea
Turkey
Vietnam
Myanmar
Egypt
China (Taiwan)
Syria
Thailand
Ukraine
Indonesia
Germany
Brazil
France
Ethiopia
Japan
Italy
UK
Saudi Arabia
Israel
Morocco
Mexico
Spain
Greece
Afghanistan
 
Note: Those marked in red have not signed the NNP treaty.
Collective Security Treaty Organisation
 
15 May 1992          Military allience signed by 7 of 15 fomer USSR members
07 Oct 2002          Charter of Tshkent founds CSTO
 
Secretary-general
28 Apr 2003 -        Nikolay Nikolayevich Bordyuzha (RF)
 
 
Members
07 Oct 2002 - Armenia
            - Belarus
            - Kazakhstan
            - Kyrgyzstan
            - Russian Federation
            - Takikistan
23 Jun 2006 - Uzbekistan
Former Members
1994 - 1999 - Azerbaijan
1994 - 1999 - Georgia
 
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
 
NATO, flag - vector image
 
04 Apr 1949               NATO Formed
30 Aug      - 30 Sep 1995 Bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Opperation Deliberate Force)
24 Mar      - 10 Jun 1999 Bombing of Yugoslavia (Opperation Allied Force)
12 Jun 1999 -             NATO led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
07 Oct 2001               Invasion of Afghanistan (Opperation Enduring Freedom)
16 Apr 2003 -             Takes command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
19 Mar      - 31 Oct 2011 Military intervention in Libya (Opperation Unified Protector)
 
Secretaries-general
04 Apr 1952 - 16 May 1957 Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay ............... 1887-1965 (UK)
16 May 1957 - 04 Mar 1961 Paul-Henri Charles Spaak ................. 1899-1971 (Belgium)
21 Apr 1961 - 31 Jul 1964 Dirk Uipko Stikker ....................... 1897-1979 (Netherlands)
01 Aug 1964 - 30 Sep 1971 Manlio Giovanni Brosio ................... 1897-1980 (Italy)
01 Oct 1971 - 25 Jun 1984 Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns ......... 1911-2002 (Netherlands)
25 Jun 1984 - 30 Jun 1988 Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington ........ 1919-     (UK)
01 Jul 1988 - 13 Aug 1994 Manfred Hermann Wörner ................... 1934-1994 (Germany)
17 Oct 1994 - 20 Oct 1995 Willem Werner Hubert Claes                           (Belgium)
05 Dec 1995 - 06 Oct 1999 Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga                 (Spain)
14 Oct 1999 - 17 Dec 2003 George Islay MacNeil Robertson                       (UK)
05 Jan 2004 - 31 Jul 2009 Jakob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer                      (Holland)
01 Aug 2009 -             Anders Fogh Rasmussen                                (Denmark)
 
 
US Supreme Allied Commanders of Europe
02 Apr 1951 - 30 May 1952 Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower ............. 1890-1969
30 May 1952 - 11 Jul 1953 Gen. Matthew Bunker Ridgway .............. 1895-1993
11 Jul 1953 - 20 Nov 1956 Gen. Alfred Maximilian Gruenther ......... 1899-1983
20 Nov 1956 - 31 Dec 1962 Gen. Lauris Norstad ...................... 1907-1988
01 Jan 1963 - 30 Jun 1969 Gen. Lyman Louis Lemnitzer ............... 1899-1988
01 Jul 1969 - 15 Dec 1974 Gen. Andrew Jackson Goodpaster ........... 1915-2005
15 Dec 1974 - 30 Jun 1979 Gen. Alexander Meigs Haig ................ 1924-2010
01 Jul 1979 - 26 Jan 1987 Gen. Bernard William Rogers .............. 1921-2008
26 Jan 1987 - 23 Jun 1992 Gen. John Rogers Galvin .................. 1929-
23 Jun 1992 - 22 Oct 1993 Gen. John Malchase David Shalikashvili ... 1936-2011
22 Oct 1993 - 11 Jul 1997 Gen. George Alfred Joulwan
11 Jul 1997 - 03 May 2000 Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark
03 May 2000 - 17 Jan 2003 Gen. Joseph W. Ralston
17 Jan 2003 - 07 Dec 2006 Gen. James Logan Jones
07 Dec 2006 - 02 Jul 2009 Gen. Bantz John Caddock
02 Jul 2009 -             Admiral. James G. Stavidis
 
 
Members
24 Aug 1949 - Kingdom of Belgium
            - Kingdom of Canada
            - Kingdom of Denmark
            - Republic of France[1]
            - Republic of Iceland
            - Republic of Italy
            - Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
            - Kingdom of the Netherlands
            - Kingdom of Norway
            - Republic of Portugal
            - United Kingdom
            - United States
18 Feb 1952 - Kingdom of Greece[2]
            - Turkey
05 May 1955 - Federal Republic of Germany
30 May 1982 - Kingdom of Spain
12 May 1999 - Czech Republic
            - Republic of Hungary
            - Republic of Poland
29 Mar 2004 - Republic of Bulgaria
            - Republic of Estonia
            - Republic of Latvia
            - Republic of Lithuania
            - Republic of Romania
            - Republic of Slovakia
            - Republic of Slovenia
01 Apr 2009 - Republic of Albania
            - Republic of Croatia
[1](withdrew from integrated command 1966-2009)
[2](withdrew from integrated command 1974-1980)
Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
 
26 Apr 1996               Shanghai Five founded
15 Jun 2001               Renamed SCO
 
Secretaries-general
15 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2006 Zhang Deguang (China)
01 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2009 Bolat Kabdylkhamit Nurgali (Kazakhstan)
01 Jan 2010 -             Muratbek Sansyzba Imanali (Kyrgyzstan)
 
 
Members
15 Jun 2001 - People's Republic of China
            - Kazakhstan
            - Kyrgyzstan
            - Russian Federation
            - Tajikistan
07 Jun 2002 - Uzbekistan
Observer Members
India
Iran
Mongolia
Pakistan
Dialogue Partners
Belarus
Sri Lanka
 
Warsaw Treaty Organisation
 
USSR Armed Forces Guards, emblem
 
14 May 1955               Warsaw Treaty of Frendship signed
04 Nov 1956               Invasion of Hungary
21 Aug 1968               Invasion of Czechoslovakia
31 Jul 1991               Officially dissolved
 
Commanders-in-chief of the Joint Armed Forces (all from USSR)
15 May 1955 - 23 Jul 1960 Ivan Stepanovich Konev ................... 1897-1973
23 Jul 1960 - 07 Jul 1967 Andrei Antonovich Grechko
07 Jul 1967 - 08 Jan 1977 Ivan Ignatyevich Yakubovsky
08 Jan 1977 - 02 Feb 1989 Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov
02 Feb 1989 - 31 Jul 1991 Pyotr Georgievich Lushev
 
Members 
14 May 1955 - People's Republic of Albania[1]
            - Socialist Republic of Bulgaria
            - Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia
            - German Democratic Republic[2]
            - Socialist Republic of Hungary[3]
            - Socialist Republic of Poland
            - Socialist Republic of Romania
            - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[1] Withdrew 1968, [2] Withdrew 1990, [3]Attempted withdral 1956
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