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North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program and,as of 2024,is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year. North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons. In 2003,North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Since 2006,the country has conducted six nuclear tests at increasing levels of expertise,prompting the imposition of sanctions.
Jericho is a general designation given to a loosely-related family of deployed ballistic missiles developed by Israel since the 1960s. The name is taken from the first development contract for the Jericho I signed between Israel and Dassault in 1963,with the codename as a reference to the Biblical city of Jericho. As with some other Israeli high tech weapons systems,exact details are classified,though there are observed test data,public statements by government officials,and details in open literature especially about the Shavit satellite launch vehicle.
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Jeffrey Lewis is an American expert in nuclear nonproliferation and geopolitics,currently a professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey,and director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program. He has written two books on China's nuclear weapons,and numerous journal and magazine articles,blog posts,and podcasts on nonproliferation and related topics.
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