Not sure what you mean by that being unverifiable? The question says:
This question resolves as the total number of nuclear weapons (fission or thermonuclear) reported to be possessed across all states on December 31, 2022. This includes deployed, reserve/ nondeployed, and retired (but still intact) warheads, and both strategic and nonstrategic weapons.
Resolution criteria will come from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). If they cease publishing such numbers before resolution, resolution will come from the Arms Control Association or any other similar platform.
FAS update their estimates fairly regularly—here are their estimates as of May (that link is also provided earlier in the question text).
Though I do realise now that they’re extremely unlikely to update their numbers on December 31 specifically, and maybe not even in December 2022 at all. I’ll look into the best way to tweak the question in light of that.If that’s what you meant, thanks for the feedback!
(I do expect there’ll be various minor issues like that, and we hope the community catches them quickly so we can tweak the questions to fix them. This was also one reason for showing some questions before they “open”.)
Not sure what you mean by that being unverifiable? The question says:
FAS update their estimates fairly regularly—here are their estimates as of May (that link is also provided earlier in the question text).
Though I do realise now that they’re extremely unlikely to update their numbers on December 31 specifically, and maybe not even in December 2022 at all. I’ll look into the best way to tweak the question in light of that. If that’s what you meant, thanks for the feedback!
(I do expect there’ll be various minor issues like that, and we hope the community catches them quickly so we can tweak the questions to fix them. This was also one reason for showing some questions before they “open”.)