What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Nuclear Arsenals:<\/b><\/p>\n Globally: <\/b>The nine nuclear-armed states\u2014the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (North Korea)\u2014continue to modernize their nuclear arsenals.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia<\/b> and the <\/span>USA<\/b> together possess over 90% of all nuclear weapons. <\/span>However, in 2021, the number of nuclear warheads in both countries declined, but this was mainly due to the dismantling of discarded warheads, which the military had already abandoned years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n China<\/b> had <\/span>350 nuclear warheads<\/b> in January 2021 as well as January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n India:<\/b> India<\/span> had 160 nuclear warheads as of January 2022.\u00a0<\/span>India has expanded its nuclear stockpile from 156 in January 2021 to 160 in January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> India does not share official data on its nuclear arsenal.<\/span><\/p>\n Global Military Expenditure:\u00a0<\/b>Global military expenditure rose for the seventh consecutive year in 2021 to reach US$2113 billion, exceeding $2 trillion for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Importers and Exporters of Major Arms:\u00a0<\/b>The five largest arms exporters<\/b> in 2017-21 are – the United States, Russia, France, China and Germany.They accounted for 77% of the total volume of exports of major arms.<\/span><\/p>\n The five largest arms importer<\/b>s were India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Australia and China, which together accounted for 38% of total arms imports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The region that received the largest volume of major arms supplies<\/b> in 2017\u201321 was Asia and Oceania, accounting for 43% of the total.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>India appears to be expanding its nuclear arsenal, claims SIPRI<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 13th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released the findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2022.\u00a0 What are the key findings of the report? Nuclear Arsenals: Globally: The nine nuclear-armed states\u2014the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (North Korea)\u2014continue to modernize… Continue reading India appears to be expanding its nuclear arsenal, claims SIPRI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-190599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704947819},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SIPRI\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/62092459_7.png?resize=367%2C520&ssl=1\")