Eighty years after the first and only use of nuclear weapons during the Second World War, the proliferation of the world’s most powerful explosives has continued to provide a growing number of countries with increasingly diverse means of launching nuclear attacks.
Although the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has restricted just five counties to owning nuclear weapons, namely the United States, China, Russia, France and the United Kingdom, a total of fifteen countries today retain at least a limited known capability to launch nuclear attacks.
These include both four non-signatories of the treaty, and six countries that are part of nuclear sharing agreements, meaning they train to use either American or Russian nuclear weapons stored on their territory in the expectation that they will be provided access to these in the event that a high intensity conflict breaks out.
Countries with nuclear weapons can broadly be divided into four categories depending on the sizes, capabilities and diversity of their arsenals and means of delivery. An overview of the capabilities of the world’s nuclear arsenals is provided below.
Level One: United States, Russia and China
The United States, Russia and China are currently the only nuclear weapons states with both robust nuclear triads and intercontinental range strike capabilities, meaning they deploy nuclear weapons on ground launched missile systems, from strategic bombers, and from submarines all of which can engage targets 5,600 km away.
All three deploy both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, although China’s arsenal is under a fifth the size of the other two nuclear superpowers, while its doctrine for nuclear weapons use is among the most conservative and defensive in the world.
The three countries each have various strengths and shortcomings in their arsenals, with Russia deploying more warheads, a large arsenal of nuclear armed tactical ballistic missiles, and intercontinental range hypersonic glide vehicles, while the United States is the only country to deploy tactical nuclear weapons using radar evading stealth fighters and bombers.
The United States suffers from growing obsolescence of arsenal of nuclear armed intercontinental range ballistic missiles, which dates back to the 1970s, while Russia has sought to counter the threat from American bombers by arming its interceptors with the world’s only known nuclear-armed air-to-air missiles.
US Army Places US Typhon Missiles In Japan For First Time, Enraging China
The United States continues using regional Asian allies to counter-signal China and flex its military might, following President Xi Jinping’s massive military parade marking the 80th anniversary of World War II, which gripped the world’s attention two weeks ago.
This week the US Army has unveiled a midrange Typhon missile system on a Japanese base for the first time. The deployment comes in the context of the annual bilateral exercise Resolute Dragon; however, US officials have made clear the Typhon won’t be fired, but is only there for training purposes.
Typhon missile
We previewed earlier that the Typhon, also dubbed ‘Mid-Range Capability’, is a land-based missile launcher that can fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range exceeding 1,000 miles, and SM-6 missiles, which can hit targets up to 290 miles away.
The missile system would have been banned under the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a treaty with Russia that the US withdrew from in 2019. This has naturally caused immense alarm in Beijing, as has Washington’s deepening military relationship with Japan.
An Israeli sniper from the IDF’s Nahal Brigade detailed in comments to Haaretz the killing of unarmed Palestinians, including children, who were attempting to get aid in Gaza.
“It started about two months ago,” the soldier, who went by the pseudonym Benny, told the Israeli paper as part of a story focusing on the mental toll on IDF soldiers in Gaza. “Every day we have the same mission: to secure the humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip.”
The report said that Benny and his fellow soldiers began their day at 3:30 am when they set up sniper positions near where aid trucks arrive to unload their contents. He said that Gaza residents try to move forward to get a good spot in line, but often cross an invisible line set by the IDF.
“A line that if they cross it, I can shoot them,” Benny said. “It’s like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different direction every time, and I’m there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are yelling at me, ‘Take him down, take him down.’ I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I’ve stopped counting kills. I have no idea how many I’ve killed, a lot. Children.”
“The battalion commander would yell over the radio, ‘Why aren’t you taking them down. They are heading our way. This is dangerous,’” Benny said. “The sense is that we are being positioned in an impossible situation, and no one had prepared us for this. The officers do not care if children die, they also do not care what it does to my soul. To them, I am just another tool.”
“I saw the bodies of two children, maybe 8 or 10 years old, I have no idea. There was blood everywhere, lots of signs of gunfire, I knew it was all on me, that I did this. I wanted to throw up. After a few minutes, the company commander arrived and said coldly, as if he wasn’t a human being, ‘They entered an extermination zone, it is their fault, this is what war is like,’” he added.
A provision authorizing extrajudicial murder exists within Jewish law. Din rodef — “law of the pursuer,” permits the killing of those who are deemed a threat to individual Jews or the Jewish state, without the benefit of due process.
In the book Torat Hamelekh (The King’s Torah), Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur explain that din rodef “applies even when the pursuer is not threatening to kill directly, but only indirectly… anyone who weakens our own state by word or similar action is considered a pursuer.”
Din rodef explains what has happened to so many strong men in the West — they have been covertly maimed, poisoned or killed while still boys or young men.
I see the opioid crisis, the fentanyl crisis and the covid vax in this light.
The covid plandemic was the same but used mind-control to bring about widespread death and disabling.
Covert warfare over several generations will destroy any society, and this is especially true if political and other leaders are bought off, paid to not notice. ABN
I have only spot checked this video but it appears to be the original one made by Eric Hufschmid, I believe in 2003, perhaps containing some supplementary material. There are other versions of Painful Deceptions, which seem to be the same or similar but narrated by someone other than Eric and about 20 min shorter than the version above. The one above is clearly in Eric’s voice. Whatever, Hufschmid’s video stands as the earliest comprehensive foundation of the 9/11 story. If you have never seen this video, it is important to watch it. If it’s been awhile since you last saw it, it’s well-worth a quick review. ABN
An algorithm-based ranking of the world’s foremost military powers taking into account over 50 different factors to determine each country’s position.
Quantity and quality of armaments, while important, are supplemented by equally important evaluations of training, combat readiness, overseas military bases, defensive infrastructure and fortifications among many other assets considered.
Strategic and tactical nuclear capabilities, due to the extreme caution with which they must be deployed and states’ general refrain from using them, are considered a limited asset rather than the decisive game changer they would be if employed freely.
Nuclear powers are marked accordingly in the right hand column. Due to their highly secretive nature, biological warfare capabilities are not taken into consideration.
As well as ranking states numerically, military powers are also divided into six tiers based on the league in which their military capabilities lie.
Those countries in the same tier can be considered near peer competitors, although the kinds of strengths and capabilities they field can be entirely different.
Outstanding strengths of each country, if any, are listed below their names, as are links to further information for each country’s aerial, naval and ground warfare capabilities.
This is a screen shot of the interactive presentation of the top 60 countries in the world
For almost two years, there has been a background conversation with a handful of people watching the Silicon Valley network closely and monitoring every move and position they take. They hold an entirely divergent set of motives that are not aligned with Making America Great Again behind this crew.
I’m simply saying for everyone to keep their eyes wide open, review THAT ARTICLE I just linked above, and put it in the context of the issues and discussions we have had on these pages. Remember, there are literally trillions at stake, and we have been duped too many times. The issues and the stakes in our nation are just too important.
The concern we have is about the “surveillance state”, and the creations of the Silicon Valley tech bros that are building out tools that can easily be weaponized as the contracts with the U.S. government are fulfilled. President Trump will not weaponize them, but the existing tools and the DHS track and trace enhancements being built by the tech team are threats to liberty.
Real ID connected to facial recognition, connected to personage, a digital identity and/or a track and trace capability is ultimately an assembled tech tool for control. Politically Exposed Persons are the most vulnerable.
Those who follow the deepest weeds of their constructs know that billionaire Elon Musk’s ability to have a public influence platform would not exist without the full support of billionaire Larry Ellison. They are absolute partners – mentor and protegee. The part that people are having a hard time accepting is the end goal, the motive behind that Ellison support.
My opinion is today the same as it was when the situation first started to surface. Think of how the Sea Island group positioned Ron DeSantis for his MAGA challenge in 2024. That was a long term plan that started years before DeSantis entered the primary. DeSantis took positions that were highly favored by President Trump supporters, and his network constructed an image that was intentional to ingratiate himself within the movement.
What we have researched with Elon Musk carries many of the same background datapoints and nuance. Musk takes popular positions to cover for some very un-MAGA proposals; the H1B issue is just one facet. Overall, a technological system of surveillance and control by a few tech oligarchs is well underway.
We must keep our eyes wide open. We must trust our instincts and differentiate between key issues that can impact us and our families, and the issues we support – but are not direct impacts on our lives. We want a big tent; we all want to see success for President Trump and the MAGA agenda, but we cannot achieve our goals if liberty is lost in the process.
The surveillance state diminishes liberty; it needs to be confronted as it surfaces.
Poland’s Prime Minister today warned ‘we are closer to war than any time since World War Two’ after his country was forced to shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace.
Polish media is now reporting that Donald Tusk has requested the triggering of NATO’s Article 4, where member countries can bring an issue to the attention of the North Atlantic Council. Poland’s security council will also meet to discuss an ‘appropriate response’.
More than eight million Poles were ordered to hide in their homes as the drones flew overhead, with debris from one shot-down device crashing into a house. The full force of NATO’s fighter planes was unleashed to shoot down the drones.
After the organisation’s patriot defence systems detected the drones with their radars, Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35, Italian surveillance aircraft, and NATO’s MRTT mid-air refuelling aircraft all came together to counter the drones.
The downing of Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicles marked the first-ever direct engagement between Moscow and NATO. It has long insisted it wants no confrontation with Putin. Kyiv has accused Russia of deliberately invading Poland’s airspace with 24 UAVs to test the West’s defences.
Multiple Russian drones leaving Ukraine airspace into Poland’s
On Wednesday, Tusk held an extraordinary meeting with top officials after Russia’s actions. Senior army officials are present at the gathering.
He said a number of drones that posed direct threats to Russia were shot down in a joint effort with NATO allies, and warned that Poland is ready to react. The prime minister added that he was in communication with allies.
Tusk also spoke in parliament and said some of the drones flew in from neighbouring Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia. He also confirmed that three or four of the nineteen drones were shot down.
UPDATE: The reasons for this are decidedly ambiguous. Could be to provoke NATO, to test Poland’s defenses, to prepare for negotiations or just to flex. How we interpret it is a psychosemiotic challenge. I doubt Putin wants war and also I doubt he would back down from war if provoked. It is very possible Poland or NATO has provoked Russia in some way we do not know about. Navrotsky said yesterday: ‘I’m not going to give my consent to send the Polish military to Ukraine’. I wonder if his views on that will change now. Another possibility is Zelensky sent doctored drones from Ukraine to provoke Poland against Russia. ABN
No question he is mentally ill. And also, there is no question the manifestation of his illness was programmed into him by decades of anti-white propaganda, a form of divisive mind-control. You may need to turn volume up to hear him say, ‘I got that white girl’. ABN
Following confirmation of the planned deployment of U.S. Air Force F-35A fighter aircraft to Puerto Rico to support ongoing operations near Venezuela, questions have increasingly been raised regarding how the fighters may be utilised to support an American offensive against its southern neighbour as tensions continue to escalate.
The deployment of F-35s was announced hours after an overflight by two Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighters over the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke Class destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Caribbean Sea, and at a time when the United States is actively considering options to escalate hostilities to launch attacks on Venezuelan soil.
As part this escalation, the United States government has placed a higher bounty on the head of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, following years of sustained efforts to oust him from power including a failed kidnapping attempt in 2020.
The F-35 is the only fifth generation fighter class in production anywhere in the Western world, and is considered unrivalled in its sophistication by any non-Chinese fighter class.
The aircraft is heavily optimised for operations against advanced air defence networks, making it an ideal fighter to neutralise the S-300VM, BuK-M2 and S-125 systems guarding Venezuelan airspace, all of which are deployed in only relatively limited numbers.
F-35 (left) and Venezuelan Su-30MK2
With Venezuela’s F-16s being among the oldest and least capable in the world, the greatest challenge to any attempts to attack the country by air will come from its fleet of 22 Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft, which considered by far the most capable in Latin America.
A comparison of the capabilities of the rival fighter classes could thus provide valuable insight into how a potential engagement could play out.
The United States has significantly increased its military presence near Venezuela in late August and early September 2025, deploying naval assets to combat drug trafficking and counter alleged narco-terrorism under President Donald Trump’s directives On August 18, three U.S. Navy warships—USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson—along with approximately 4,000 military personnel, were sent to the Caribbean and waters off Venezuela’s coast This force has since expanded to include additional warships, P-8 surveillance aircraft, an attack submarine, and three amphibious assault ships carrying over 4,000 sailors and Marines
The U.S. government claims these deployments are part of a broader campaign to disrupt drug cartels, particularly the Venezuelan-linked Tren de Aragua, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization in February 2025 The Trump administration has also doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro from $25 million to $50 million, accusing him of leading a “narco-terror cartel” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the seizure of $700 million in assets linked to Maduro, including luxury goods and private jets
While the U.S. has not signaled plans for a land invasion, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump is “prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice,” declining to rule out military strikes On September 3, two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets conducted a flyover near a U.S. destroyer, which the Pentagon condemned as “highly provocative,” warning against interference with counter-narcotics missions
In response, Venezuela has declared “maximum preparedness” for defense President Maduro announced the activation of over 4.5 million members of the Bolivarian Militia—a civilian defense force established in 2005—to guard factories, workplaces, and national territory He characterized the U.S. naval deployment as an “extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat” and warned that military action would “stain Trump’s hands with blood” Maduro also stated he would declare a “republic in arms” if Venezuela were attacked, though he did not elaborate on what that would entail
Venezuela has deployed more than 15,000 troops along its coast and border with Colombia and temporarily banned drone operations in its airspace, citing past assassination attempts The Venezuelan government rejects U.S. allegations, calling them a “false narrative” designed to justify regime change, and insists that most cocaine trafficking from Colombia occurs via the Pacific, not Venezuela
Analysts and officials note that while tensions are high, there is no indication of an imminent U.S. invasion, and the current operations remain focused on interdiction and deterrence within international waters and airspace
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