All of the following are acknowledged nuclear powers except: A. Pakistan. B. Germany. C. China. D. France.

As of 2019,
eight countries are acknowledged to be nuclear powers, having admitted to possessing nuclear
weapons. A ninth, Israel, is known to have nuclear weapons but has never publicly acknowledged
the fact. The countries with the largest arsenals by far are Russia and the United States.
Russia has almost 7,000 nuclear weapons, and the United States has more than 6,500 of them. Of
the countries mentioned in the question, three have developed, tested, and have a stockpile of
nuclear weapons.

France conducted its first nuclear weapons test in 1960, and
since then it conducted over 200 more between 1960 and 1995, mainly in the Algerian desert and
French Polynesia. It currently maintains approximately 300 operational nuclear warheads, and one
of its nuclear submarines is constantly on patrol.

China began a nuclear
weapons program as a deterrent against the United States and the Soviet Union. It tested its
first nuclear device in a remote region of Mongolia in 1964. China currently possesses almost
300 nuclear weapons.

Beginning in the 1970s, Pakistan spent decades secretly
developing nuclear weapons. In 1971, Pakistani president Bhutto vowed to develop nuclear weapons
in response to India's nuclear weapons program. Its first tests took place in the mountains of
northern Pakistan, in a place called the Ras Koh Hills in 1998. Pakistan is believed to have
about 150 nuclear weapons.

This brings us to Germany, which is the correct
answer to the question. Germany is not a nuclear power and does not have nuclear weapons of its
own, although it has the technical capability of building them. During the Cold War, nuclear
weapons were deployed in West Germany by the United States and East Germany by the Soviet Union.
Currently under a NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, the United States stores a quantity of
warheads in Germany that would be delivered by Germany in the event of war. Supposedly these
weapons cannot be armed without special authorization codes by the US Department of Defense.
Germany has contemplated developing its own nuclear weapons program and did not sign the United
Nations treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.

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