US EditionCountries Deploying More Nuclear Weapons, Monitors Warn
Deployed nuclear warheads increased by 141 in 2025 to nearly 10,000, raising risks amid eroding arms-control treaties and escalating global conflicts, the report warned.
- The Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report found nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons quickly available for use in 2025, calling it a "concerning development" amid intensifying armed conflicts globally.
- Nearly all nine nuclear-armed states—Russia, United States, China, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea—are increasing their arsenals, as none have joined the TPNW treaty.
- The nine states possessed 12,187 warheads combined at 2026's start, with 4,012 deployed on ballistic missiles or bombers; this stockpile equals 135,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs' destructive potential.
- "The era of nuclear reduction is over," said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, warning that "Nuclear posturing is on autopilot."
- The report highlighted "the erosion of the longstanding disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control regime," including New START's lapsing in February, increasing risks of rapid escalation and accidental use.
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The nuclear-weapon States are intensifying the production and development of nuclear weapons and the number of weapons prepared for use has increased almost 10,000 years ago, on the basis of increasingly tense conflicts. An international report warns that this trend is leading to a new arms race and increases the risk of climbing and accidental use.
There are nearly 10,000 deployable nuclear weapons in the world today, with a combined destructive power equivalent to 135,000 Hiroshima bombs, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said on Thursday. The atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city in 1945 killed more than 140,000 people. While the number of nuclear warheads has fallen by 141 since the beginning of 2025 to 12,187 by the beginning of this year, the number of nu…
Thousands of nuclear weapons with an explosive power of 135,000 Hiroshima bombs are to be stored worldwide. A report shows where they are mounted. Several nuclear states are also expanding their arsenals.
At the beginning of this year, nuclear powers had slightly less than 10,000 nuclear warheads ready for immediate use, and the number of these weapons in the world has been increasing for nine years in a row, according to the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Monitor 2026 report.
The number of ready-to-use nuclear weapons rose again in 2025 and reached 9,745 warheads, 141 more than the previous year, in the midst of the escalation of armed conflict, according to the latest report of the Monitor for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, published on Thursday. The document also warned that 40 per cent of this nuclear arsenal, 4,012 warheads, is deployed in ballistic missiles, mobile launchers, submarines and bomber bases. "T…
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