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, USA had the biggest number of nuclear weapons upon the time span. In the initial year, 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. As for Russia, Russia stood at second place, the number of weapons accounted for 196 in 1965 which is significantly lower in comparison with USA, after this the trend grew dramatically to 4873 in 1990, eventually decreasing steadily to 3995 in 2005.
Turning to China, the number of weapons comprised just 10 in the first year, and had climbed dramatically to 257 before decreasing to 192.Moving to France, the amount of weapons accounted for 7 in the initial year, and this increased two times by 49 figures, then fall modestly to 32 pieces. Regarding UK, it had 15 figures in 1965 which grew significantly to 235 in 1990, after that the number of weapons declined to 198 pieces. As for Germany and Japan, they did not have any weapons at all.