Report: The World's Nuclear Powers Are Upgrading Their Arsenals

The world's nuclear powers are upgrading their capabilities, while the number of warheads is down.

DW: Nuclear powers upgrade arsenals as numbers fall: SIPRI

Nuclear-weapon powers continue to modernize their arsenals despite an overall reduction in warheads, a report has found. Reductions may slow if a US-Russia treaty is not renewed past 2021.

Nuclear powers are continuing to modernize their arsenals despite an overall decrease in the number of nuclear warheads, a Sweden-based peace research institute said Monday.

Nine nuclear-weapon powers — the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea — had an estimated 13,865 nuclear weapons at the start of 2019, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported. Deployed warheads and those held in reserve or awaiting dismantlement are included in the estimate.

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WNU Editor: SIPRI's report is here .... Modernization of world nuclear forces continues despite overall decrease in number of warheads: New SIPRI Yearbook out now (SIPRI).

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