{"id": 1033222, "name": "Nuclear warheads deliverable in a first strike", "unit": "warheads", "createdAt": "2025-05-21T11:46:30.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-07-30T01:05:06.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1945-2010", "datasetId": 7095, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "nuclear_warheads_deliverable", "catalogPath": "grapher/war/2025-05-15/strategic_nuclear_forces/strategic_nuclear_forces_monadic#nuclear_warheads_deliverable", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "4103331507436837238", "metadataChecksum": "-7524446666096042977", "datasetName": "The Strategic Nuclear Forces Dataset", "datasetVersion": "2025-05-15", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "warheads", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Nuclear Weapons", "War & Peace"]}, "descriptionKey": "- The exact number of countries' warheads is secret, and the estimates are based on publicly available information, historical records, and experts' estimates.\n- The warheads included here are strategic ones \u2014 those designed for use away from the battlefield, such as against military bases, arms industries, or infrastructure.\n- Only those strategic warheads are included that could be deployed \u2014 those that could be carried by ballistic missiles, bombers, and submarines in one strike.", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1945}, {"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 101, "name": "Pakistan", "code": "PAK"}, {"id": 12, "name": "Russia", "code": "RUS"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 3562, "titleSnapshot": "The Strategic Nuclear Forces Dataset - Monadic data", "title": "The Strategic Nuclear Forces Dataset", "descriptionSnapshot": "The original data exists in two different formats:\n1. In the dyadic format, each row in the data corresponds to a pair of states, and the nuclear capabilities of a state depends on the distance to the other state. For example, a country may have a certain number of warheads, but not all of them could be delivered to a very distant country.\n2. In the monadic format, each row corresponds to just one country. This data shows the nuclear capabilities of a state, regardless of what country they could be used against.\n\nThe current dataset is presented in monadic format.", "description": "This dataset describes times-series-cross-sectional information on all nuclear-armed states' strategic nuclear forces, and provides three indicators: the deliverable strategic warhead count, the equivalent megatonnage (EMT) index, and the counter military potential (CMP) index.", "producer": "Suh", "citationFull": "Kyungwon Suh - The Strategic Nuclear Forces Dataset, monadic data (2024).\n\nSuh, Kyungwon. 2022. \u201cNuclear Balance and the Initiation of Nuclear Crises: Does Superiority Matter?\u201d Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 60, No. 2 (March): 337-351. Doi:10.1177/00223433211067899.", "attribution": "Suh - The Strategic Nuclear Forces Dataset v2.0 (2023)", "attributionShort": "Suh", "versionProducer": "v2.0", "urlMain": "https://kyungwonsuh.weebly.com/datasets.html", "urlDownload": "https://kyungwonsuh.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/1/146191116/snforce2_monad.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2025-05-15", "datePublished": "2024-01-30", "license": {"name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}