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Every one of the nine nuclear armed countries is spending significant resources investing in new, more usable, and more destabilizing nuclear weapons. In some of these countries, this work is done by private companies.
Companies from China, France, India, Italy, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States are significantly involved in the production of nuclear weapons. Many of the companies involved have multi-year production contracts, totaling at least $200 billion and continuing for decades.
These are the publicly traded companies most significantly involved in nuclear weapons production:
- Airbus
- BAE Systems
- Bechtel
- Bharat Dynamics Limited
- Boeing
- China Aerospace Science and Technology
- Fluor
- General Dynamics
- Groupe REEL
- Honeywell International
- Huntington Ingalls Industries
- Jacobs Solutions
- L3 Harris Technologies
- Leidos
- Leonardo
- Lockheed Martin
- Northrop Grumman
- RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies)
- Rostec
- Rolls-Royce
- Safran
- Thales
- Walchandnagar Industries Limited
- Textron
Download this document for more information about what each of these companies does.