US leads record rise in spending on nuclear arsenals, campaign group says

GENEVA, June 8 (Reuters) – Spending on nuclear weapons by the ​world’s nine nuclear-armed states rose ‌by almost a fifth in 2025 to $119 billion, a report by the International ​Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ​said on Tuesday.

The 19% increase from 2024 ⁠produced the highest expenditure on ​nuclear weapons since the campaign group ​began tracking the annual nuclear arms expenditure of the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain, ​India, Pakistan, North Korea and ​Israel in 2020.