The SIPRI Yearbook 2025 reveals that China’s nuclear arsenal is growing faster than any other country’s, by about 100 new warheads a year since 2023.

Nine countries possess nuclear weapons, with Russia having the largest stockpile of military nuclear warheads.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An overnight Russian missile and drone bombardment of Ukraine killed 15 people and injured 156, local officials said Tuesday, with the main barrage demolishing a nine-story Kyiv apartment building in the deadliest attack on the capital this year.

The Ukrainian operation was “grounds for a nuclear attack,” declared Vladmir Solovyov, a firebrand host on Russian state TV, calling for strikes on the Ukrainian presidential office in Kyiv, and beyond.

Kazakhstan has awarded contracts to both Russia's Rosatom and China's National Nuclear Corporation for the construction of two separate nuclear power plants, demonstrating a multi-vector approach to foreign policy.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that special attention in the country's new arms programme should be paid to the nuclear triad - land-based, sea-based and aircraft-launched weapons.

China has an estimated 600 nuclear warheads—an increase of 100 in just one year—the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported.