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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) warned yesterday that the world’s nuclear weapons powers appear determined to maintain their nuclear capacity indefinitely.
Sipri said that, although there has been a steady decline in the number of nuclear warheads over the past five years, the nine nuclear weapons-capable countries still hold around 16,300 weapons.
This was down by around 5.6 per cent from last year, but the pace of reduction seemed to be slowing compared with a decade ago, the Swedish institute said.
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