The table presents data on the number of nuclear weapons owned by seven countries in three selected years.
Overall, it is apparent from the table that all countries, except Germany and Japan, experienced an increase in the number of nuclear weapons over the period shown. Germany and Japan did not possess any nuclear weapons throughout the period.
To begin, the USA had the largest number of nuclear weapons over the time span. In the initial year, the USA had almost 400 weapons, and this rocketed to 7534 in 1990, after that the quantity of weapons declined slightly to 6976 pieces by the final year. Russia followed as the second highest, initially possessing 196 nuclear weapons, which surged to 4873 in 1990 but later decreased to 3995 in 2005.
Turning to China, China also experienced significant fluctuations, starting from a mere 10 weapons in 1965, it escalated to 257 in 1990, followed by a decline to 192 by 2005. Moving to France, France commenced with 7 nuclear weapons, which rose sharply to 49 by 1990, then diminished to 32 by 2005. Regarding the UK, it had 15 figures in 1965, which grew significantly to 235 in 1990, afterward, the number of weapons declined to 198 pieces. As for Germany and Japan, they did not have any weapons at all.