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French Guiana Nukes

Unless the tiny state of French Guiana has some of its parent countries nukes, this map is wrong. 72.33.0.176 (talk) 01:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's French, that is why. Slatersteven (talk) 09:55, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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India has 182 nuclear weapons 63.134.184.233 (talk) 15:05, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you provide a source we can't act on this. Slatersteven (talk) 15:06, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with table

I'm not adept at tables, so I don't now how to fix these, but I have a few comments on possible improvements. I welcome reactions.

The table is in roughly chronological order of acquisition. I say roughly because Israel is out of place and probably should be treated differently from the others. I recommend keeping it in chronological order as the default, but sortable on other numerical columns.
The table is currently sortable on all columns. That doesn't really make sense, and produces nonsensical results for the date column (alphabetical order rather than chronological). There should be a way to include dates in a sortable format.
What to do about Israel, for which there is no reliable date -- or even acknowledged fact -- of acquisition? There's probably no perfect solution, but my suggestion would be to list it last and to change the entry in the date column to "unknown" or "N/A" with a footnote to the currently listed citations indicating possible dates.

NPguy (talk) 02:46, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Canada had nuclear weapons until the 80s

Update 2605:59C8:271:9610:B51F:F496:EC17:7805 (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

sOURCE? Slatersteven (talk) 15:16, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is false. U.S. nuclear weapons were deployed in Canada. NPguy (talk) 20:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fix reference for estimate of Israeli nuclear weapons as it appears ref tag has been removed in article body accidentally

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Fix the first sentence of paragraph 5 to be a reference as the opening ref tag appears to have been accidentally removed two revisions ago

Cobracrystal (talk) 23:25, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ There are a wide range of estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. For a compiled list of estimates, see Avner Cohen, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's bargain with the Bomb (Columbia University Press, 2010), Table 1, page xxvii and page 82.

Done Changed to efn in addition to this. CMD (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] There are a wide range of estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. For a compiled list of estimates, see Avner Cohen, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's bargain with the Bomb (Columbia University Press, 2010), Table 1, page xxvii and page 82.