Russia and weapons of mass destruction

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The Russian Federation possesses the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, consisting of 5,420 nuclear warheads, of which 1,794 have been deployed. It also inherited the expansive Soviet biological and chemical weapons programs, and is suspected to have continued them. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and one of the five countries wielding a nuclear triad. It inherited its weapons and treaty obligations from the Soviet Union. Russia has been alleged to violate the Biological Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention. As of 2025, Russia's triad of strategic nuclear weapons, at approximately 2,832 weapons, comprises 1,254 warheads on its Strategic Rocket Forces' 333 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 992 warheads on its Navy's 192 RSM-56 Bulava and R-29RMU Sineva/Lajner submarine-launched ballistic missiles, on twelve Delfin and Borei-class submarines, and 586 cruise missiles or bombs, for...

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