Who is Jeff and why does he have nuclear weapons?

Who is Jeff and why does he have nuclear weapons?

I saw a graph from CNN about the world’s nuclear arsenal, and one figure immediately caught my eye.

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See the figure at the end there. Who is Jeff and why does he have as many nukes as Kim Jong?!

I googled around but could only find jokes about Jeff?s claiming nukes, like this one.

I finally found a real lead in a reddit post.

More googling lead me to:

Nuclear Energy Agency – JEFF and EFF Projects

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is a specialised agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and?

www.oecd-nea.org

Jeff stands for ?Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File? (JEFF). It is a collaboration to get accurate data on fusion and fission.

Nuclear data – Wikipedia

It groups all experimental data relevant for nuclear physics and nuclear applications. It includes a large number of?

en.wikipedia.org

I can?t find anything that says they for sure have nuclear bombs, but that seems the most likely explanation for ?who is Jeff and why does he have a nuclear arsenal.?

And as a reminder that nukes are scary?

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