Just flipping through Military Balance 1983/84 and musing on just how many nukes were floating around back then.
The US had:
264 Trident C-4 SLBM (8x100KT warheads)
304 Poseidon C-3 SLBM (10x50KT warheads)
450 Minuteman II ICBM (1 2MT warhead, some sources claim 1.75MT)
550 Minuteman III ICBM (3x170KT or 3 335KT warheads)
45 Titan II ICBM (1x9MT warhead)
90 B-52H (SAC nuclear-ready bombers)
151 B-52G (tagged as conventional bombers, but can carry cruise missiles)
56 FB-111A (SAC nuclear-ready bombers)
1,140 AGM-69A SRAM (1x200KT warhead)
200 nuclear armed Tomahawk cruise missiles (1x200KT warhead)
108 Pershing I IRBM 1x60-400KT warhead)
72 Lance SSM (1x50KT warhead)
the M-110 203mm can fire 1KT, 2KT, or 0.5KT shells
the M-109 155mm can fire 2KT, 0.5KT or 4-5KT shells
The USSR had:
20 SS-N-20 SLBM (6-9x200KT?)
224 SS-N-18 SLBM (3x200KT or 1x450KT or 7x200KT)
286 SS-N-8 SLBM (1x1MT or 1x800KT)
12 SS-N-17 SLBM (1x1MT est)
438 SS-N-5 SLBM (1x1MT)
550 SS-11 ICBM (1x1MT or 3 100-300KT)
60 SS-13 ICBM (1x750KT)
150 SS-17 SLBM (4x750KT or 1x6MT or 4x2KT)
308 SS-18 ICBM (1x20MT or 8x900KT or 10x500KT or 10x750KT)
330 SS-19 ICBM 6x550KT or 1x5MT or 6x550KT)
16 SS-5 IRBM (1x1MT)
360 SS-20 IRBM (1x1.5MT or 3x150KT)
223 SS-4 MRBM (1x1MT)
100 Tu-95 Bear (nuclear-mission bombers)
43 Mya-4 Bison (nuclear-mission bombers)
220 Tu-16 Badger G (nuclear-mission bombers)
125 Tu-22 Blinder (nuclear-mission bombers)
110 Tu-22M Backfire (nuclear-mission bombers)
1,500 FROG/Scud/Scaleboard SSM (can be armed with nuclear warheads)
(SSMs carried 1x200KT)
The UK had:
64 Polaris A-3 SLBM (3x200KT)
France had:
84 M-20 SLBM (1x1MT)
18 SSBS S-3 IRBM (1x1MT)
34 Mirage IVA (nuclear-mission bombers)
46 Pluton SSM (can be armed with nuclear warheads) (1x10KT)
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