Asia-Pacific Leadership Network @apln.network · Jul 8 For the first time since the 1980s, all nine nuclear-armed states are expanding their arsenals at once. Our new Quarterly Nuclear Memo by Manpreet Sethi and @hreepsamudra.bsky.social maps a quarter where worrying developments clearly outnumbered stabilising ones. a thread🧵
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The signals are hard to ignore. North Korea now calls denuclearisation "terminated irreversibly," and neither China nor Russia is pushing back. China's arsenal has reached 620 warheads, with deployed warheads up 42% year-on-year. India is assessed to have deployed warheads for the first time.