ISAS Briefs

For some time, nuclear arsenals all across the world have been the focus of global policy makers‟ attention. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has come up with a report on 3 June 2013, which has stressed that nuclear arsenals of the Asian countries – such as China, India, and Pakistan – are expanding while the older nuclear-weapon states, such as the United States and Russia are scaling down theirs. It has described this phenomenon as “disturbing” given that peace in Asia is still “fragile”, that “decades old suspicions linger, and economic integration has not been followed up with political integration”.