A new world -nuclear arms career is emerging at a time when weapons control regimes are weakened, the International Institute for Studies for Stockholm (SIPRI) warned on Monday.
The Sipri stood out in a report that almost all the nine nuclear states – United States (EU), Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – continued with “intensive” nuclear modernization programs last year, updating existing weapons and adding new versions.
Of the estimated total inventory last January 12,241, about 9,614 were in military arsenals for potential use; 3,912 of them, deployed with missiles and airplanes; and about 2,100, in a maximum state of alert in ballistic missiles.
Since the end of the Cold War, the gradual dismantling of the Ojivas withdrawn by the US and Russia surpassed the deployment of new nuclear heads, but it is likely that this trend is reversed in the coming years, since the rhythm of destruction has stopped and the deployment has accelerated.
“We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, an accentuated nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of weapons control agreements,” writes this institute in its report.
This new career would have “more risks and uncertainties” than the last one, the SIPRI stands out, due to the appearance of new technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence, cyber abilities, defenses against missiles and quantum technology.
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Report warns of the risk of a new nuclear weapons career
Between Russia and the United States they have about 90 % of the total nuclear weapons and although the size of their nuclear arsenals seems to have remained stable in 2024, “both are implementing wide modernization programs that could increase the size and diversity of these in the future.”
The SIPRI recalls that the strategic weapons reduction treaty (START III) expires in February 2026 and that if a new bilateral agreement is not reached, an increase in the number of warship was probable.
SIPRI estimates suggest that China has at least 600 nuclear heads and that its arsenal grows faster than that of any other country, around a hundred more every year since 2023.
If you maintain that rhythm and reach 1,500 eyelets in 2035, that figure would barely bare a third of the current arsenals of the United States and Russia, the report points out.
With EFE information.
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