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China is pushing ahead with the largest-ever expansion of its nuclear arsenal, modernizing the atomic deterrent with an eye on any future conflicts with the United States, experts say. The SIPRI think tank estimates that China has a stockpile of around 350 nuclear warheads -- small fry when compared with…

GLOBAL military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of £1.79 trillion, a Swedish think tank has said.

As it joins Nato, Finland records its highest year-on-year increase in military spending since 1962

A Sweden-based watchdog says global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion

Global defense spending hit record $2.2 trillion last year.

Ukraine military spending surged by 640%, the largest annual increase ever in data by SIPRI, a think tank.

Europe's military spending grew at a record pace in 2022, reaching a level unseen since the Cold War following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, global security researchers said Monday. The rise in Europe helped global military expenditures reach an eighth straight record at $2.24 trillion, or 2.2 percent of the world's…

Surge in spending reflects Russia-Ukraine war and ‘increasingly insecure world’, according to leading think tank.

A new analysis gives rise to speculation that Kyiv is beginning a long-awaited counteroffensive, as new data shows global military expenditure increased by a record 3.7 per cent last year.

Global military spending rose to a record last year, spurred by a policy U-turn in Europe where governments boosted capabilities by the most since the end of the Cold War in the wake of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Stockholm International Peace Institute’s annual report finds UK was region’s biggest spender in 2022 at $68.5bn