Video: Herman Cain does not know China has had nuclear weapons since the 1960s

Nations that are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons

Year of first nuclear weapons test

United States  1945 (“Trinity”)

Russia (former USSR) 1949 (“RDS-1”)

United Kingdom 1952 (“Hurricane”)

France 1960 (“Gerboise Bleue”)

China 1964 (“596”)

India 1974 (“Smiling Buddha”)

Pakistan 1998 (“Chagai-I”)

Countries that are thought to have nuclear weapons

North Korea (2006)

Israel 1979 (Vela Incident)

South Africa produced 6 nuclear weapons. South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons program in 1989. South Africa held its first universal elections in 1994, which ended the official apartheid era. South Africa has the unique status of a nation that developed nuclear weapons and disassembled its arsenal before joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It was the only country in Africa to have nuclear weapons.