Russia's Nuclear Weapons: Size, Control, and Deployment in Belarus.

Russia has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear warheads, with President Putin controlling about 5,977 such warheads as of 2022. The country appears to have about 400 nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, 10 nuclear-armed nuclear submarines, and 60 to 70 nuclear bombers. The Russian president is the ultimate decision-maker when it comes to using Russian nuclear weapons, and the so-called nuclear briefcase is with the president at all times. The US has accused Russia and China of expanding and modernizing their nuclear forces, and Washington plans to pursue an approach based on arms control to head off costly arms races.