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Worst Chart Ever

A friend sent along an article in Newsweek, Pakistan’s Nuclear Surge, by Andrew Bast that has what I think has to be the worst chart ever.

I mean that.

 

Does this make any sense to anyone?

I see the chart was “Compiled with Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists” but I don’t think we can blame Hans for this atrocity.

China at 40 nuclear weapons?

North Korea “could” weaponize its program?

This is supposed to be by 2021?

It looks like an Alexander Calder mobile gone terribly wrong.

What are the baseline numbers?

This makes my eyes hurt.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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