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Nuclear weapons: Which country's arsenal is growing fastest?
19 Jun 2025 15:06 GMT
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Beijing is currently building new silos for its intercontinental ballistic missiles … dialogue between China and the US on nuclear-weapon-related issues … increasing its non-strategic nuclear weapons and deploying more warheads to existing launchers …
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ExplainedIsrael's secretive nuclear weapons programme
19 Jun 2025 11:50 GMT
… never officially acknowledged holding nuclear weapons, but the Stockholm … that it has 90 nuclear warheads.
Israel is also … countries openly acknowledge possessing nuclear weapons or are believed … China are officially counted as holders of a nuclear …
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India possesses 180 nuclear weapons, Pakistan 170
19 Jun 2025 11:32 GMT
… detailing the global status of nuclear weapons. According to the SIPRI Yearbook … world, collectively possessing 12,241 nuclear warheads. The report raises serious concerns … for potential use. China is reportedly producing around 100 new warheads annually.
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Iran's cratered nuclear reactor after Israel's precision strike revealed as Tel Aviv threatens to assassinate supreme leader and Trump considers joining war
19 Jun 2025 14:50 GMT
… a material used to make nuclear weapons.
Iranian state media said the … to the IDF, the missile';s warhead split while descending and … Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have made … 39; adding that Moscow and Beijing believed the end to the …
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'Is it a meteor, or a dragon...'; Iran's Fattah-I hypersonic missile flies towards Israel at 15 times speed of sounds, videos go viral
19 Jun 2025 15:02 GMT
… wondering what kind of weapon Iran had fired. … defenses with a maneuverable warhead, it was reportedly used … China, and Russia to have successfully produced a hypersonic missile … nuclear scientists, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, while Iranian missile …
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Iran's FM to attend nuclear talks in Geneva with European states
19 Jun 2025 15:03 GMT
… systematic Iranian effort to develop nuclear weapons.
"This is too … accountable" for a missile strike on an Israeli … President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held … "Both Moscow and Beijing fundamentally believe that there is …
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What happens if Iran chooses to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
19 Jun 2025 14:44 GMT
… weapons. It also vowed retaliation and launched ballistic missiles … preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, and … and exploded a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device prior … Union (later Russia) and China.
Today, 191 states have …
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What is Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, and could US weapons destroy it?
19 Jun 2025 12:06 GMT
… fired missiles at Fordow, home to another facility where nuclear … -235. To build a nuclear weapon, uranium must be enriched … uranium is considered “weapons-grade”.
In 2015, Iran, China, Russia, the … between fighting and having a nuclear weapon, you have to do …
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China builds nuclear neutron gun that shoots ‘atomic flashlight’ to detect bombs
19 Jun 2025 15:25 GMT
Chinese researchers have reportedly achieved controlled nuclear fusion between hydrogen and lithium … or magnetic confinement systems, the Chinese apparatus is the size of … China is investing more in advanced energy weapons and new types of nuclear weapons …
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US leak in 1982 halted India's plan to strike Pakistani nuclear site? Here's what declassified CIA files reveal
19 Jun 2025 13:17 GMT
… to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facility at Kahuta, fearing … be producing weapons-grade uranium with help from China and … Pakistan eventually tested its first nuclear weapon in 1998, but many … experts believe its weapons program had quietly succeeded …