I don’t know what France’s capacity is but I very much doubt it is anything near Russia’s. If I am not mistaken Britain’s nuclear deterrent is under dual key control of the United States, Israel does not have the capacity to hit the US and I simply don’t know about China but again I would doubt it matches Russia.
He’s got a point, only Russia comes close.
The “dual key” was with NATO tactical nukes, not strategic.
Great Britain has about 160 on its ballistic missile boats, France has a couple dozen more with some air delivered ones as well. Israel, no clear public numbers, but thought to be in the dozens or low hundreds, and shorter ranged.
Both the US and Russia have around 1500-2000 strategic weapons ready to launch, with the US having maybe slightly more, but Russia has a strong advantage in tactical nuclear weapons numbers.
In any case, in the US or Russia, try to name 100 main cities, ports and major airbases. Add some redundancy and just a few hundred weapons can eliminate either nation as a major military power. The remaining overkill is to address the unknown and make it as difficult as possible to accomplish a first strike.
We shouldn’t eliminate any more of our deterrent, but what we do have is substantial.
They have four nuclear-powers ballistic missile submarines, each capable of launching as many as 160 warheads. That could do a dance on the US...