Thinktank highlights ‘worrying trend’ among nuclear-armed states at time of heightened tensions
Russia launches a ballistic missile at a testing field in Plesetsk, in a photo released in April. Armaments researchers say the global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow for the first time since the end of the cold war.Russia launches a ballistic missile at a testing field in Plesetsk, in a photo released in April. Armaments researchers say the global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow for the first time since the end of the cold war.First published on Mon 13 Jun 2022 00.
The increase come despite a statement from the UN’s five permanent members of the security council in 2021 – the US,, China, the UK and France – stating that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. All P5 members continue to expand or modernise their nuclear arsenals. In early 2021, France officially launched a programme to develop a third-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine while India and Pakistan appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals, and both countries introduced and continued to develop new types of nuclear delivery system in 2021.
“There are clear indications that the reductions that have characterised global nuclear arsenals since the end of the cold war have ended,” said Hans M Kristensen, an associate senior fellow with Sipri’s weapons of mass destruction programme and director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists .
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