Nuclear Weapons Infographic

UK’s TimesOnline has a nice infographic that shows the quantity of nuclear weapons held by various nations around the world.

Whatever they find, the world already has enough nuclear weapons to destroy every single nation on the planet. With approximately 23,000 warheads, there is enough deadly material for 2.3 million blasts the size of Hiroshima.

via Iran’s nuclear programme will not change the balance of power… yet | Michael Binyon – Times Online. via ChartPorn.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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