Russia has weapons of mass destruction.
By the end of 1990 , the Soviet Union had the world 's second largest economy , largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
According to the Federation of American Scientists , an organization that assesses nuclear weapon stockpiles , as of 2016 , Russian Federation possesses 7,300 total nuclear warheads , of which 1,790 are strategically operational.
