INDIA, CHINA NUCLEAR ARSENALS GROW

INDIA, CHINA NUCLEAR ARSENALS GROW

All nations that have nuclear weapons continue to modernise their nuclear arsenals

According to a latest report by Swedish think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

China is developing a so – called nuclear triad for the first time

China’s nuclear arsenal gone up from 290 in 2019 to 320 in 2020, India’s went up from 130-140 in 2019 to 150 in 2020, Pakistan’s arsenal estimated to be between 150 -160 in 2019 and has reached 160 in 2020

Nine nuclear armed states – the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea 

13,400 nuclear weapons at the start of 2020, which marked a decrease from an estimated 13, 865 nuclear weapons at the beginning of 2019

Decrease in the overall numbers was largely due to the dismantlement of old nuclear weapons by Russia and U.S.

U.S. and Russia have reduced their nuclear arsenals under the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) but it will lapse in February 2021

New START or negotiate a new treaty made no progress with the U.S.’s insistence that China must join any future nuclear arms reduction talks, which China has categorically ruled out

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI): An international institute based in Sweden

In 1964, Prime Minister of Sweden Tage Erlander put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden's 150 years of unbroken peace

A Swedish Royal Commission chaired by Ambassador Alva Myrdal proposed in its 1966 report to establish an institute, later named the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI

The Swedish Riksdag decided that the Institute be established on 1 July 1966 with the legal status of an independent foundation. All SIPRI research is based exclusively on open sources

SIPRI's main publication, the SIPRI Yearbook, was first published on 12 November 1969

Dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament

SIPRI's organisation consists of a Governing Board, Director, Deputy Director, Research Staff Collegium and support staff. An Advisory Committee serves as a consultative body to the Institute.

SIPRI cooperates closely with several intergovernmental organisations and regularly receives parliamentary, scientific and government delegations as well as visiting researchers

SIPRI's financial support is primarily drawn from governments and independent philanthropic organisations around the world

SIPRI also receives annual support from the Swedish government in the form of a core grant approved by the Swedish parliament.