{"id":14932,"date":"2014-06-17T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:08:02","slug":"still-16300-nuclear-warheads-so-world-a-long-way-from-nuclear-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14932","title":{"rendered":"Still 16,300 nuclear warheads, so world a long way from nuclear disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All five legally recognised nuclear-weapons states \u2013 China, France, Russia, Britain and the US \u2013 are deploying new nuclear weapon delivery systems or have announced programmes to do so, according to an authoritative study.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan are also developing new systems capable of delivering nuclear weapons and are expanding their capacities to produce fissile material for military purposes. And there is an emerging consensus in the expert community that North Korea has produced a small number of nuclear weapons, as distinct from rudimentary nuclear explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>These are the conclusions of the latest annual survey by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), which says nine states \u2013 the US, Russia, the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea \u2013 possess a total of approximately 4,000 operational nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/16\/modernising-nuclear-weapons-arsenals-sipri-study\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All five legally recognised nuclear-weapons states \u2013 China, France, Russia, Britain and the US \u2013 are deploying new nuclear weapon delivery systems or have announced programmes to do so, according to an authoritative study. India and Pakistan are also developing new systems capable of delivering nuclear weapons and are expanding their capacities to produce fissile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14936,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions\/14936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}