There are eight sovereign states that have
successfully detonated nuclear
weapons. Five are
considered to be "nuclear-weapon states" (NWS) under
the terms of the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
These are the five States that had manufactured or exploded a
nuclear weapon before 1967. In order of acquisition of nuclear
weapons these are: the United
States, the Russian
Federation (successor state to the Soviet Union),
the United
Kingdom, France,
and China.
Since the NPT entered into force in 1970, three
states that were not parties to the Treaty have
conducted nuclear
tests, namely India,
Pakistan
, and North
Korea. North Korea had been a party to the NPT but
withdrew in 2003. Israel is also
widely known to have nuclear weapons, though it
maintains a policy of deliberate
ambiguity regarding this (has not acknowledged it),
and is not known definitively to have conducted a nuclear
test. According to the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute's SIPRI Yearbook
of 2014, Israel has approximately 80 nuclear warheads.
Source: Wikipedia