Global nuke arsenals expected to grow for 1st time since Cold War
ANKARA - Global nuclear arsenals are expected to grow over the next decade for the first time since the Cold War, according to an international study released on Monday. The world's nine nuclear-armed states -- the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea -- continue to modernize and expand their nuclear arsenals at a rate that will likely increase over the next decade, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found in its newly released Yearbook 2022. "There are clear indications that the reductions that have characterized globa...