The International Research Institute Stockholm (SIPRI) in its new yearbook 2025 revealed that nine countries around the world have been from 1 January 2025 to 12,241 nuclear weapons.
The new report comes in the middle of the ongoing tension between Israel and Iran over the Teheránský nuclear program. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah have said that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”.
In the middle of war and chaos in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine Year’s SIPRI 2025 They showed that “there is a dangerous new nuclear weapon plant at a time when weapons control regimes are seriously weakened”.
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The report also appointed “Nine States (countries)” that have nuclear heads, and also mentioned the number of warheads they have.
The SIPRI 2025 yearbook said: “At the beginning of 2025 it had nine countries … Together it had approximately 12,241 nuclear weapons, of which 9,614 were considered potentially available.”
Here’s what the report has revealed.
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Which countries have nuclear heads?
According to the report, there are nine nuclear armed states of the US, Russia, Great Britain (Great Britain), France, China, India, Pakistan, Korean Democratic People’s Republic (North Korea) and Israel.
How many nuclear heads do these countries have?
Here is a list as estimated by SIPRI:
OUR: 5 177 nuclear weapons
Russia: 5 459 nuclear weapons
China: 600 nuclear weapons
France: 290 nuclear weapons
India: 180 nuclear weapons
Pakistan: 170 nuclear weapons
Israel: 90 nuclear weapons
North Korea: 50 nuclear weapons
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The report said that these countries’ continued its intensive programs of modernization of nuclear mass in 2024, upgrading existing weapons and adding newer versions “.
The SIPRI report further revealed that of the total global inventory estimated 12,241 heads in January 2025 was about 9,614 in military supplies for potential use.
It is estimated that 3,912 of these heads were deployed with missiles and aircraft and the rest was in central storage.
About 2,100 deployed heads were maintained in a state of high operating alerts of ballistic missiles.
“Almost all of these heads belonged to Russia or the US, but China can now keep some of the heads on missiles,” the report said.
Credit: SIPRI Yearbook 2025
Key with you from the SIPRI Yearbook
SIPRI analysis revealed that the Chinese nuclear arsenal has grown faster than any other country, about 100 new heads a year since 2023.
She also mentioned that India was assumed that in 2024 she again slightly expanded her nuclear arsenal and continued to develop new types of nuclear systems.
The report added that “Russia and the US have about 90 percent of all nuclear weapons”. He said it is likely that the Russian and the US deployment of nuclear weapons over the years will increase despite their nuclear programs facing challenges.
“Number of nuclear heads is still dropping”
The SIPRI report claimed that the number of nuclear heads in the world continues to decline due to the dismantling of the US and Russia.
However, he noted that “the number of disassembled heads decreases every year and seems likely that the rate at which retirement heads are dismantled will soon be overtaken by the measure at which the new heads enter into global reserves.”
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