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"Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the Bomb"

-- Stanley Kubrick's movie title

There are currently about 31,000 nuclear warheads deployed or in reserve in the stockpiles of eight countries: China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Of these about 13,000 are deployed and 4,600 of these are on high alert, i.e. ready to be launched within minutes notice. The combined explosive yield of these weapons is approximately 5,000 megatons, which is about 200,000 times the explosive yield of the bomb used on Hiroshima.

-- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

"The United States is working on designing new nuclear weapons, planning to build a new nuclear facility to create plutonium pits for nuclear weapons, threatening to use these weapons in more and more circumstances, and pursuing other techniques for establishing nuclear supremacy. The US has failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and the Bush administration is looking to shorten the amount of time it would take to resume full-scale underground testing"

-- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Should Muslim nations have their bombs too like the Americans and the Russians and the nations of the WMD club?

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