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Nevertheless, the US continues to be the leading power in the multipolar world

The continued funding of nuclear weapons development is a pork barrel of herculean proportions.

Observers have put forward varying explanations suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes, through nuclear threats, to achieve some current or future tactical edge in his face-off with Ukraine and NATO. But none of that reasoning erases a dangerous reality: Any Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons would create unprecedented conditions that could easily lead not to Russia's advantage, but to a wider nuclear war that would decimate Russia—and its leadership. Observers have p...

China is now calling for no-first-use of nuclear weapons. It said that nuclear states should fulfill their responsibilities.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ 2024 Nuclear Notebook estimates that China now has about 500 nuclear warheads, and more are being produced to equip future delivery systems. Of the nine nuclear-armed powers, China is thought to have one of the fastest-growing nuclear arsenals at present.Last Oc...

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Without providing the world with any word of explanation, in the past five years the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) of China has expanded the types and quantity of its nuclear-tipped weapons more than at any point in its history. World News | China's Rapidly Expanding Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Remains Opaque.

Chinese military spokesmen have neither confirmed nor denied the expansion of the ICBM force, and the authors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists chapter on China acknowledged the opacity of the PLARF: "Analyzing and estimating Chinas nuclear forces is a challenging endeavor, particularly given the relative lack of state-originating data and the tight control of messaging surrounding the countrys nuclear arsenal and doctrine." Beijing has never officially revealed warhead numbers,...

Two reports were released this month on the development of the Chinese nuclear force- the Nuclear Notebook of 2024 by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and the report of the International Institute for Strategic...

A life-long opponent of nuclear weapons—raised during the Cold War—reflects on intergenerational lessons about activism, and teaching college students to embrace their curiosity, and their fear, on the way to saving the world.

Researchers are using open-source intelligence such as satellite imagery and military parades to lift the fog surrounding the world’s nuclear stockpiles. VICE, By Matthew Gault, 19 December 2023, As best anyone can tell, there are 12,512 nuclear weapons in the world. But the world of nuclear deterrence is one of secrets and threats.  Deterrence, the idea…