Beijing also equipped itself with at least 30 new warheads in 2019 as part of the country's 'significant modernisation' of nuclear arsenal, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute claimed. The Communist country is estimated to have a total of 320 weapons in its nuclear arsenal, according to the Sweden-based independent group. China has equipped at least 30 more nuclear warheads in the past year as part of the country's 'significant modernisation'. It wrote: 'The decrease in the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world in 2019 was largely due to the dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons by Russia and the USA - which together still possess over 90 per cent of global nuclear weapons. Russia owns 6,375 weapons in its nuclear arsenal, including 1,570 deployed warheads.

Source: Daily Mail June 30, 2020 13:27 UTC