So, the nine nuclear powers (the five official members of the “nuclear club” – USA, Russia, France, Britain and China, and also India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea) spent on this purpose for nearly 73 billion dollars. This amount is 10 percent higher than in 2018, estimated the researchers.
At the same time, the United States invested in the development of its nuclear weapons as much (35.4 billion us dollars), as all the other nuclear powers in the world put together.
In second place is China, with an annual expenditure of NGOs was estimated at 10.4 billion dollars. Third place goes to United Kingdom (8.9 billion), the fourth – Russia (8.5 billion), the fifth – France (4.8 billion).
the Unofficial members of the global “nuclear club” to spend on the most powerful weapons is considerably less than 2.3 billion India 1 billion Pakistan and Israel and 620 million North Korea.
Recall that in the world today, there are more than 13 thousand nuclear warheads, more than 90 percent of which are concentrated in USA and Russia. Currently the number of deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads is limited by the start-3 Treaty signed between Moscow and Washington in 2010 and expiring in February 2021.
Russia is offering the United States to extend the contract for five years and during that time to develop a new mechanism of maintaining strategic stability in the world. In Moscow yet do not see the readiness of the United States “to respond positively to the call to extend the contract without conditions,” said may 11, the Deputy foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Ryabkov.
