6 minutes agoWhat is happening to the world's nuclear weapons?
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Although the number of nuclear weapons across the globe is decreasing, countries that possess such arsenals are modernising their reserves, according to a new report. This shows that most of these countries do not want to give up such weapons, at least for now. Data released by the Institute [...]
Data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday assess the nuclear arsenals of the nine countries they own- US, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan and North Korea.
It is said that Israel owns such weapons but has never been publicly accepted.
According to data, all countries except North Korea owned approximately 4,150 <x0 operational strategy deployed” in early 2017.
North Korea was not involved in deployed missile data.
Total for the 9 countries mentioned is equivalent to 14,395 rockets, with a drop from 2017, where states had 15,395.
The decline is due to the US and Russia, which own 93 percent of all nuclear weapons.
The two countries, according to the report, have reduced their strategic nuclear weapons inventory under the bilateral Treaty on later Strategic Arms Reduction and Limitation Measures (New START, signed in 2010 by former US President Barack Obama and former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev, broadcast OraNews.
However, the report notes that the “responding of their reductions remains slow” and that modernisation remains a key goal for both countries.
“Both Russia and the United States have extensive and expensive programmes for nuclear modernisation,” says in the report, noting that the United States plans to spend $400 billion on 2017-26 for the preservation and update of their nuclear forces.
