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Global stockpiles are expected to begin growing again as countries expand and modernize their arsenals The risk of nuclear weapons being u

Ukrainian defenders are fighting fiercely for "every metre" of Sievierodonetsk, added President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in his nightly video address on Sunday

The Swedish institute expects the global nuclear arsenal to start growing for the first time since the end of the Cold War.

The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War while the risk of such weapons being used is the greatest in decades, a leading conflict and armaments think-tank said on Monday, Reuters reported. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Western support for Kyiv has heightened

India and Pakistan also seem to be increasing the size of their nuclear weapon inventories, a leading arms watchdog has said. At the start of 2022, nine states  —- the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) -- possessed approximately 12,705 nuclear weapons, of which 9,440 were estimated to be in military stockpiles for potential use. About 3,732 of these warheads were estimated to be deployed with operational forces, and around 2,000 of these were kept in a...