4 World Military
4.1 Nuclear Arms Race
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We are in a new nuclear arms race. Every nuclear-armed state is building new nuclear weapons. Some - like North Korea, China, India and Pakistan - are increasing their arsenals. Some, like the United States and Russia, are replacing every one of their existing weapons and considering vastly increasing their arsenals. Two nuclear-armed states - Russia and Israel - are in major wars that risk the use of their weapons. None are proposing new measures to restrict, reduce, let alone eliminate, these weapons.
For the past few years, the United States and Russia have actively dismantled many of the key nuclear guardrails, including treaties that prohibited certain kinds of nuclear weapons and provided transparency into their arsenals of 5,000+ nuclear weapons each.
Dangers from nuclear weapons are increasing. Government and active public support for reducing and eliminating those weapons is decreasing.