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Israel should be moved out of the presumed Category

Israeli Minister of Heritage Amihai Eliyahu said that "dropping an atomic weapon on Gaza is [a] the possible opt I think this qualifies them for admitting they have Nuclear Weapons.ions."

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1721070704806989884 AddInfinty (talk) 10:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

He was rebuked and suspended from his job for saying it, so it cannot be read to constitute official Israeli policy. NPguy (talk) 22:30, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should Iran join Israel in the presumed category

I haven't done any proper research but according to the Wikipedia page for Iran's nuclear policy talks about Iran Having an amount of enrichment uranium that would not be needed for any civilian purposes. BUSHMAN1024 (talk) 19:11, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here is an article in fox news about Iranian lawmaker declaring them having nuclear weapons. Given the fact that they making the bomb is not that complicated, but enrichment is (which they already seem to have done), may be worth including.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranian-lawmaker-declares-tehran-obtained-nuclear-bombs.amp ShaunRex (talk) 03:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No. Iranian hardliners say lots of things that don't necessarily correspond to the facts. I won't comment on the reliability of Fox News on this sort of thing. NPguy (talk) 03:18, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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]