Each year, the nine nuclear-armed nations spend a combined total of more than US$100 billion on their nuclear forces – assembling new warheads, modernizing old ones, and building ballistic missiles, bombers and submarines to launch them. Much of this work is being carried out by private companies.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is coordinating ‘Nuclear Abolition Day’ to mobilize for a treaty to outlaw and eliminate all nuclear weapons. See how you can get involved by going to nuclearabolition.org. At last year’s Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, the five original nuclear weapon states – the United States, Russia, the United […]