“Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states — the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Israel –continued intensive nuclear modernisation programmes in 2024, upgrading existing weapons and adding newer versions,” the statement said. The combination of strikes and third-party disinformation “risked turning a conventional conflict into a nuclear crisis,” Matt Korda, Associate Senior Researcher with SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme and Associate Director for the Nuclear Information Project at FAS (Federation of American Scientists), was quoted as saying in the statement. The think-tank further said since the end of the Cold War, the gradual dismantlement of retired warheads by Russia and the USA has normally outstripped the deployment of new warheads, resulting in an overall year-on-year decrease in the global inventory of nuclear weapons.
Author: The Hills Times
Published at: 2025-06-17 22:45:00
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