Monitors reported on Thursday that nuclear powers increased their manufacturing and use of the weapons last year. They described this as a “concerning development” during a period of escalating hostilities.
The authors of the annual Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report indicate that almost all of the nine nuclear-armed states—Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea—have begun to expand their arsenals or have declared plans to do so.Hans Kristensen, a main author to the paper and director of the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) Nuclear Information Project, stated that the age of nuclear reduction is finished.
He cautioned reporters in Geneva that this represents “an enormous shift.”
According to the monitor, that is equal to 135,000 bombs the size of Hiroshima, one of which claimed 140,000 lives in 1945. According to the report, 4,012 of such warheads, or 40% of them, were used on ballistic missiles in silos, on mobile launchers, on submarines, or at bomber bases last year, an increase of 108 from 2024.Kristensen said that the ongoing yearly increase in deployed warheads was “a concerning development” and “increasing the risks of rapid escalation, miscalculation, and accidental use.
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