What do American people think about nuclear weapons?
Force axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
54% of American respondents take the position “Nuclear arms keep the peace by making war too costly.”, against 26% for “Nuclear arms make disaster more likely, and should be got rid of.”, with 19% choosing neither. n = 113, margin of error ±9.3, weighted to the United States's adult population.
Where the United States sits on force
What is measured about the United States on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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3.4% |
higher than most countries
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$76,931 |
among the highest in the world
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on nuclear weapons
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Nuclear arms make disaster more likely, and should be got rid of.
B · Nuclear arms keep the peace by making war too costly.
World, unweighted: 43% A ·
24% neither ·
33% B · n = 3920
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54% B 🇺🇸 n=113 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- The united states public opinion on nuclear weapons
- Nuclear weapons poll the united states
- What do american people think about nuclear weapons
- What percentage of american people support nuclear weapons
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