Today, the risk of the use of nuclear weapons in the world has reached the highest level since the Cold War..
Such data was published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in the annual "
According to SIPRI, all states of the "
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Wilfred Wang, Director of the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Program, said all the world's nuclear-weapon states are building up or upgrading their arsenals..
" This is a very worrying trend,"
According to SIPRI expert Hans Christensen, "
As of January 2022, the leaders in the number of deployed nuclear warheads were:.
USA - 1744 (together with stock-3708);
Russia - 1588 (4477);
France - 280 (290);
United Kingdom (in 2021 the country refused to publish data on nuclear warheads) - 120 (180).
Pakistan also owns a nuclear stockpile - 165 warheads, India - 160, Israel - 90 and North Korea - 20.