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Hydrogen bomb, about 75 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, is enough to devastate 40 square miles, about 100 square

kilometers, and potentially wipe out the largest cities on Earth.

Just one bomb.

Do I have your attention?

So how many countries have nuclear weapons today?

There are five nations recognized under the NPT, the Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty.

They are the US, Russia, China, France, and Britain.

But there are four other countries who either aren't recognized or don't admit to having nuclear weapons.

And they are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea.

Today there are some 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world. The vast majority of

them held by the U.S. and Russia, more than 7,000 each. But that's down from a peak during the

Cold War era of some 70,000 nuclear weapons around the world.

Three two, one. Today, nuclear powers can deliver nuclear weapons in four ways by missiles, either ballistic

missiles or cruise missiles, by submarines, by bombers, or by tactical weapons, such as

artillery shells, although that's far less common today.

The biggest concern with ballistic missiles, and that's because they travel by far the fastest. About 15,000 miles an hour, the US can hit Russia or Russia can hit the US in some 30 minutes.

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