Nuclear-armed countries are strengthening their arsenals and several have made ready new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems amid rising geopolitical tensions, a new report has found.The nine nuclear states – the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – have continued to modernise their weapons stockpiles, with China, for the first time, possibly deploying "a small number of warheads on missiles during peacetime", the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a new report published Monday."While the global total of nuclear warheads continues to fall as Cold War-era weapons are gradually dismantled, regrettably we continue to see year-on-year increases in the number of operational nuclear warheads," the institute's director Dan Smith said.
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