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Russia and the United States have reduced
their inventories but still account for more
than 93% of all operational nuclear warheads.
SIPRI notes that "all five legally recognized
nuclear weapon states China, France,
Russia, the UK and the USA are either
deploying new nuclear weapon delivery
systems or have announced programs to do
so."
Here are nine countries with nuclear weapons
(and here is the full report):
Nine Nations Have Nukes â Here's How Many Each Country Has - Business Insider
Vietnam war at a glance
Strength
≈1,830,000 (1968)
South Vietnam: 850,000 (1968)
1,500,000 (197475) [9]
United States: 536,100 (1968)
Free World Military Forces : 65,000 [10][11]
South Korea: 50,000 [12]
Australia: 7,672
New Zealand: 552
Thailand: 11,570
Philippines: 2,020
≈461,000
North Vietnam: 287,465 (January 1968) [13]
China: 170,000 (in 196569) [14][15]
[16]
Soviet Union: 3,000
North Korea: 300600
Casualties and losses
South Vietnam
195,000430,000 civilian dead [17][18]
220,357 [19] 313,000 military dead [20]
1,170,000 wounded [21]
United States
58,307 dead; [22] 303,644 wounded[A 2]
South Korea
5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing
Australia
500 dead; 3,129 wounded
[23]
New Zealand
37 dead; 187 wounded
[24]
Thailand
351 dead;1,358 wounded[25]
Philippines
9 dead [26]
Total dead: 479,660807,303
Total wounded: ≈1,490,000+ [21]
North Vietnam & Viet Cong
50,000 [27] 65,000 [17] civilian dead
400,000 [17] 1,100,000 military dead or
missing [28]
600,000+ wounded[29]
China
≈1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded [16]
Soviet Union
16 dead [30]
Total dead: 455,4621,170,462
Total wounded: ≈608,200
Vietnamese civilian dead : 245,000
2,000,000 [31][32]
Cambodian Civil War dead: 200,000300,000*
[33][34][35]
Laotian Civil War dead : 20,000200,000*
Total civilian dead: 465,0002,500,000**
Total dead : 1,102,0003,886,026 Aircraft
losses
* indicates approximations, see Casualties
below
For more information see Vietnam War
casualties
** This figure includes all of the dead from
the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars.
The Vietnam War ( Vietnamese : Chiến tranh
Việt Nam), also known as the Second
Indochina War, [36] and also known in Vietnam
as Resistance War Against America
(Vietnamese : Kháng chiến chống Mỹ
😉 or
simply the American War , was a Cold War -era
proxy war[37] that occurred in Vietnam , Laos ,
and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to
the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war
followed the First Indochina War (194654)
and was fought between North Vietnam
supported by the Soviet Union, China and
other communist alliesand the government
of South Vietnam supported by the United
States, Philippines and other anti-communist
allies.[42] The Viet Cong (also known as the
National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South
Vietnamese communist common front aided
by the North, fought a guerrilla war against
anti-communist forces in the region. The
People's Army of Vietnam (also known as the
North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more
conventional war, at times committing large
units to battle.
As the war continued, the part of the Viet
Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of
the NVA grew. U.S. and South Vietnamese
forces relied on air superiority and
overwhelming firepower to conduct search and
destroy operations, involving ground forces,
artillery, and airstrikes. In the course of the
war, the U.S. conducted a large-scale
strategic bombing campaign against North
Vietnam, and over time the North Vietnamese
airspace became the most heavily defended in
the world. [citation needed]
USA lost