STOCKHOLM — The number of deployed nuclear warheads worldwide has increased over the past year, the Swedish think tank SIPRI found in its annual report released today.
The expansion comes as Europe wrestles with its own nuclear future amidst a French plan that is drawing interest from nine countries, most recently Norway.
Of the world’s roughly 12,000 warheads in the nine nuclear-armed states, as many as 2,200 were kept on high operational alert as of…
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