"The most worrying single thing that we see in the nuclear arsenals at the moment is that the long-term reduction in the numbers of nuclear warheads is coming to an end," SIPRI Director Dan Smith told DW. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the Cold War, the dismantling of retired warheads — warheads removed from the nuclear stockpile — has outpaced the deployment of new ones. In his introduction to the SIPRI Yearbook 2025, Smith warns of the prospect of a new nuclear arms race that carries "much more risk and uncertainty" than during the Cold War era — largely due to the rise of artificial intelligence and new technologies in the fields of cyber capabilities and space assets.
Author: Helen Whittle
Published at: 2025-06-15 22:05:00
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