New Delhi: China is undertaking a 'substantial expansion' of its nuclear weapons arsenal, which satellite images show includes the construction of more than 300 new missile silos, even as Pakistan also continues to be slightly ahead of India in the number of nuclear warheads. China has an estimated 350 nuclear warheads, with new mobile missile launchers and...
New York: North Korea may have spent as much as $642 million on its nuclear program last year, according to anti-nuclear activists, as the impoverished country appears ready to test a new weapon despite battling a COVID-19 outbreak and economic crisis. In a report on global nuclear weapons spending released recently, the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish...
New York: China has cemented its place as Pakistan’s largest supplier of major arms, including fighter aircraft, warships, submarines and missiles between 2017 and 2021, data compiled by an independent institute focusing on arms transfers and conflict has said. Between 2017 and 2021, Beijing met 72% of Islamabad’s demand for major arms, the data showed. Conversely, 47%...
India was the third-highest military spender in the world behind the US and China as the global defense expenditure reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021, hitting record levels despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Monday. According to data published by SIPRI, the top five military spenders—the United...
New Delhi: China, Pakistan and India have 350, 165 and 156 nuclear warheads respectively as of January this year and the three countries appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals, a study by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has said. It also said as per its assessment, Russia and the US together possess over 90 percent...
Stockholm: More than one-third of global arms sales between 2016 and 2020 originated in the United States, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). U.S. exports increased 15 percent compared to the previous five years, though total global arms deliveries remained constant. Substantial increases in transfers by three of the top five arms exporters—the USA,...
