China leading way as nuclear powers expand arsenals, report warns

China expands nuclear arsenal as global tensions grow: study

The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernize theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said Monday. "We are approaching, or maybe have already reached, the end of a long period of the number of nuclear weapons worldwide declining," Dan Smith,…

Nuclear arms spending, arsenals swell as global tensions grow - studies

The world’s nuclear powers, and China in particular, increased investment in their arsenals for a third consecutive year in 2022 amid swelling geopolitical tensions, two reports showed Monday. The world’s nine nuclear-armed states jointly spent $82.9 billion on their arsenals last year, with the United States accounting for more than half of that, according to a new report from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ALSO R…

China expands nuclear arsenal as global tensions grow – study

STOCKHOLM: The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernize theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said Monday."We are approaching, or maybe have already reached, the end of a long period of the number of nuclear weapons worldwide declining," Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), told Agence France-Presse. China's D…

Watchdog: Nuclear States Modernize Their Weapons, Chinese Arsenal Is Growing

A report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several of them deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems in 2022.

Global nuclear weapons stockpiles grew as spending soared in 2022: report

For decades, no-nukes activists have been warning that modern nuclear weapons are capable of inflicting much greater damage than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki under President Harry Truman in August 1945 during World War 2. Historians have estimated the initial combined death toll from those attacks to be at least 120,000 — a number that, according to activists, would pale in comparison to a wider nuclear conflict using today's much more…