Hind Hassan examines the imaginable of a caller atomic arms race, the companies helping to substance it, and the dangers it poses.
Eighty years aft the archetypal and lone clip atomic weapons person been utilized – the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki successful August 1945 – the hazard of the unthinkable happening again has ne'er been greater.
The world’s largest atomic powers – Russia and the United States – are arsenic adjacent arsenic they’ve been to struggle since the tallness of the Cold War.
As they upgrade their atomic capabilities, adjacent talking openly astir utilizing them, each signs constituent to the beginnings of a 2nd atomic arms race.
Only this time, determination aren’t conscionable 2 players, but three: China, erstwhile a inferior subordinate of the atomic club, is expanding its arsenal faster than immoderate different nation.
Published On 16 Aug 2025