"Era of nuclear disarmament 'coming to an end', SIPRI warns" "The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) stressed in its annual assessment of the state of armaments, disarmament and international security, that although the number of nuclear warheads in the world continued to decline last year due to the US and Russia dismantling retired warheads, the pace of such dismantlements is slowing down. The rate at which new warheads enter global stockpiles could therefore soon outpace dismantlements, SIPRI said, as nuclear states pursue modernisation programmes. "The era of reductions in the number of nuclear weapons in the world, which had lasted since the end of the Cold War, is coming to an end," Hans M. Kristensen, Associate Senior Fellow with SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme said in a statement. "Instead, we see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of arms control agreements," he added. Nine countries - the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Israel - have nuclear warheads in their arsenals with an estimated global inventory of 12,241 warheads, of which 9,614 were in military stockpiles for potential use." https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/16/era-of-nuclear-disarmament-coming-to-an-end-sipri-warns https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2025/nuclear-risks-grow-new-arms-race-looms-new-sipri-yearbook-out-now

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The era of reductions in the number of nuclear weapons is coming to an end	17/06/25 10:07:00	David Ainsworth
Re:The era of reductions in the number of nuclear weapons is coming to an end	17/06/25 11:15:00	Ivonne Holliday
Re:The era of reductions in the number of nuclear weapons is coming to an end	17/06/25 16:05:00	John Hawkes

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