Experts: Israel owns 100 to 200 nuclear heads

A study prepared by independent experts in each of the defense information center, Montery Institute for international studies and nuclear threat initiative listed names of countries which own nuclear weapons including Israel and estimated numbers of these weapons.

The study said that Israel owns between 100 to 200 nuclear warheads while the US owns some 6,000 strategic warheads and between 1670 and 3300 tactical nuclear heads.

The study added that Russia has 5500 strategic nuclear spearheads and between 3000- 4000 tactical spearheads while China owns almost 400 strategic and tactical nuclear spearheads.

The study said that there are at least four countries which have given up their programs aiming at producing such types of weapons within the recent years. These countries are Belarus, Kazakhistan, Ukraine and South Africa.