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Currently France has just short of 300 nuclear warheads, which can be fired from France-based aircraft or from submarines.

The Minuteman is a powerful weapon, capable of carrying three nuclear warheads that can reach independent targets more than 6,000 miles away, according to the Air Force.

Russia has around 4,380 operational nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists, but only 1,700 are “deployed” or ready for use.

There was no claim by Ukraine that a nuclear warhead was on the missile.

Developing a nuclear warhead for their ballistic missiles might be on their agenda.