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Global nuclear weapon inventories, January 2025. Source: SIPRI || Infographics: Duniya Jahan/TBS

Analysis

How Israel's secret nuclear arsenal comes under spotlight amid attacks on Iran

SIPRI estimates that Israel has 30 aircraft, 50 land-based missiles and 10 sea-based missiles, and these warheads are capable of being delivered anywhere within a maximum radius of 4,450 km

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attends a meeting chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin on operational issues, including the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict and the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 16, 2023. Photo: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Europe

Senior Russian diplomat says US must take heed of discussions on nuclear doctrine

Putin would detonate one or more “tactical” (as opposed to “strategic”) nukes. Photo: Reuters

Global Economy

Top 9 nuclear-armed states spent record $91.4bn on nuclear weapons in 2023: Report

File Photo: Russian Army. Photo: Reuters.

Europe

Russia's nuclear arsenal: How big is it and who controls it?

North Korean leader leader Kim Jong Un attends the 12th Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released on December 31, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS

World+Biz

North Korea's Kim orders new ICBM, bigger nuclear arsenal amid tension

FILE PHOTO: A nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea April 12, 2018. Picture taken April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

China

China's nuclear arsenal to more than triple by 2035: Pentagon

With more than 6,300 warheads, Russia has the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Photo: Collected.

World+Biz

Russia's nuclear forces holding maneuver drills: Report

In this January 9, 2008 photo released by the US Navy, The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming approaches Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. The Pentagon's top policy official tells The Associated Press that the United States for the first time has deployed the newest addition to its nuclear arsenal — a submarine-launched weapon that the Trump administration says will make nuclear war less likely

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