Nations known to possess nuclear weapons are modernizing their arsenals while failing to rapidly cut stockpiles, showing that nuclear weapons remain embedded in military strategies around the world, a new report finds. Released annually by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the report finds that China, France, Russia, the U.K.
Report: World Powers Keeping Firm Grip On Nuclear Weapons Arsenals
At the beginning of 2014, the U.S., U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea possessed a combined total of 16,300 nuclear weapons.