The SIPRI Yearbook 2025 highlights an alarming trend in global nuclear arsenals, indicating that the reduction of nuclear warheads is ceasing for most of the nine nuclear-armed countries. After a decrease in global nuclear stockpiles since the Cold War, modernization efforts have increased significantly, especially since Barack Obama's presidency. This intensification includes not only upgrades but also the introduction of new weapons, reflecting a concerning shift in international security dynamics and raising fears about a resurgence in nuclear arms competition.
The most worrying single thing that we see in the nuclear arsenals at the moment is that the long-term reduction in the numbers of nuclear warheads is coming to an end.
Already for several years before then, the security horizon worldwide had been darkening and the nuclear-armed states were already starting to introduce these processes of what we would call this 'intense' process of modernization.
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