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SIPRI: With peace elusive, nuclear weapons make a comeback

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 771 words · By Nina Werkhäuser
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SIPRI: With peace elusive, nuclear weapons make a comeback June 8, 2026Many countries are ramping up their military capabilities — and nuclear weapons are back on the agenda.

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SIPRI: With peace elusive, nuclear weapons make a comeback June 8, 2026Many countries are ramping up their military capabilities — and nuclear weapons are back on the agenda.

Why it matters

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), all nine nuclear-armed countries modernized and expanded their arsenals in 2025.

Common ground

In addition to new nuclear weapons, additional delivery systems have been introduced that can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear warheads.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “all nine nuclear-armed countries modernized and expanded their arsenals in 2025”
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Two independent news sources (News9live and News.az) specifically report that all nine nuclear-armed countries continued to modernize and expand their arsenals in 2025, citing the SIPRI Yearbook.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — All or ALL may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — All In may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — All That is an American sketch comedy children's television series created by Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. The series originally aired on Nickelodeon from April 16, 1994, to October 22, 2005, lastin…
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Claim 2: “In February, the last remaining international agreement limiting the number of nuclear weapons expired — the New START treaty between the United States and Russia”
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Three independent sources (NPR, Magnolia Tribune, The Vaultz News) all report that the New START treaty expired on February 5, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New START was a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed by US president George…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_II
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Claim 3: “In 2025, the regime in Pyongyang presented and tested new missile systems, including the solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-20”
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No evidence was found after searching for the Hwasong-20 missile system in 2025.
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Claim 4: “France has 290 nuclear warheads”
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Claim 5: “China has about 620 nuclear warheads, up from 600 in 2024”
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No evidence was found after searching for China's specific warhead count increase from 600 to 620 between 2024 and 2025.
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Claim 6: “there were nearly 12,200 nuclear weapons worldwide in 2025”
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The search results for this claim returned dictionary definitions and unrelated film titles rather than data on global nuclear weapon counts for 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There may refer to: There (2009 film), a Turkish film (Turkish title: Orada) There (2025 film), a Russian comedy film There (virtual world) there, a deictic adverb in English there, an English pronou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There, There or There There may refer to: There There (film), a 2022 American romantic comedy film There, There (film), a 2024 Canadian drama film "There There", a 2003 song by Radiohead "There, Ther…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "There You Go" is a song by American singer Pink from her debut studio album, Can't Take Me Home (2000). It was co-written by Pink, Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, and Kandi Burruss and was produced by Bri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_You_Go
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Claim 7: “China has stationed hundreds of nuclear-capable missiles in three large silo fields in the north”
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Claim 8: “Work is underway on 30 additional silos in three mountainous regions in the east”
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Claim 9: “additional delivery systems have been introduced that can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear warheads”
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The provided evidence discusses MIRV systems and general nuclear capabilities, but does not specifically confirm the introduction of new delivery systems equipped for both conventional and nuclear warheads as a general trend or specific event.
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web search NEUTRAL — All nuclear-weapon states except Pakistan and North Korea are currently confirmed to have deployed MIRV missile systems. The MIRV U.S. Peacekeeper missile, with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 26, 2026 ... It states that 'nuclear weapons can be used even in attacks by enemy states with conventional weapons that pose a serious threat to the ...
https://www.facebook.com/cnn/posts/the-last-nuclear-arms-tre…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 8, 2026 ... To arm this force, we estimate that China has produced a stockpile of approximately 620 nuclear warheads for delivery by land-based ballistic ...
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2026-07/chinese-nuclear-weap…
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Claim 10: “Russia and the United States combine for about 83% of all deployable nuclear warheads”
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One web search result explicitly states that Russia and the US together possess approximately 83% of the world's nuclear warhead stockpile. No other independent source in the provided evidence corroborates this specific percentage.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Illegals Program (so named by the United States Department of Justice) was a network of Russian sleeper agents under unofficial cover. An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States and Russia maintain strategic foreign relations since the establishment in 1991, a continuation of the relationship the United States has had with various Russian governments since 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–United_States_relations
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Claim 11: “In Western Europe, only the United Kingdom and France possess nuclear weapons”
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Claim 12: “Finland and Sweden are examples of countries where nuclear policy has changed drastically since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and after their accession to NATO”
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Multiple authoritative sources (Wikipedia, BBC, NATO Topic) confirm that Finland and Sweden abandoned their neutrality/non-alignment policies and joined NATO following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between Finland and Russia have been conducted over many centuries, from wars between Sweden and Russia in the early 18th century, to the planned and realized creation and annexation of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland–Russia_relations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There have been several rounds of peace talks to end the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war since it began with Russia's invasion in February 2022. Russia's president Vladimir Putin seeks recognition of all …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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Claim 13: “At a military parade in September 2025, China presented a complete nuclear triad — or weapons deployable from land, sea and air — for the first time”
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Claim 14: “SIPRI estimates that the country [North Korea] may already have about 60 assembled warheads and enough fissile material to produce at least 30 more”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'North' and does not contain any data regarding North Korean warhead estimates.
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web search NEUTRAL — North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geograp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North
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web search NEUTRAL — The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the four main compass directions: north (N), east (E), south (S), and west (W). The corresponding azimuths (clockwise horizontal angle from north) a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_direction
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web search NEUTRAL — In the US Civil War, the North was the group of states that fought to keep the US together. Tom lives in the northern part of the state. She lives about forty miles north of here. A north wind is a wi…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/north
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Claim 15: “Germany is not allowed to possess nuclear weapons of its own. This is stipulated in the Two Plus Four Treaty of 1990 on German reunification”
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Claim 16: “Germany therefore relies on the US umbrella, with an estimated 20 US nuclear bombs stationed within the country”
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Claim 17: “nine states possess nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel”
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SIPRI explicitly lists the nine nuclear-weapon states as the US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is strongly associated with the Chinese dragon, a symbol of magic and power. There are nine forms of the dragon, it is described in terms of nine attributes, and it has nine children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9
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web search NEUTRAL — Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, loosely based on the musical of the same name, which in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_(2009_live-action_film)
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web search NEUTRAL — Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
https://www.nine.com.au/
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