nuclear warhead

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The Kim regime has an estimated stockpile of roughly 50 nuclear warheads, with the fissile material to produce dozens more.

From The Wall Street Journal

It can do this at a high altitude, beyond even the Earth's atmosphere, which was seen as especially useful in South Korea, because it could be used to intercept and destroy a nuclear warhead.

From BBC

Pyongyang is now estimated to possess up to 50 nuclear warheads and enough fissile material to produce up to 40 more, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal

Under the same principle, Macron said that from now on France would no longer communicate to the world the number of nuclear warheads in its possession.

From BBC

By contrast, the United States and Russia, the world's two main atomic powers, have thousands of nuclear warheads each.

From Barron's