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The bulk of the increase was from China, which increased its stockpile from 350 to 410 warheads. Read more at straitstimes.com.
China led the world in building more nuclear weapons last year and could have an arsenal as big as the United States by the end of the decade according to new research.
The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernize theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said Monday. "We are approaching, or maybe have already reached, the end of a long period of the number of nuclear weapons worldwide declining," Dan Smith...
Era of slimming nuclear stockpiles is ending, Swedish think tank says, with China, Russia, India and Pakistan all deploying more bombs; Israel said to keep inventory unchanged
Abstract: Finding an effective alternative to New START should begin by recognizing that today’s world of emerging new independent nuclear weapons powers demands a different concept of strategic deterrence than the retaliation-based deterrence of the Cold War. An effective alternative could be negotiated as a follow-on treaty to the Moscow Treaty. The new treaty should be based on the protect and defend strategy, which will make arms control more effective and more relevant to today’s and tomorrow’s security challenges.