As Russia ramps up nuclear threats amid the war in Ukraine, there's been a surge in spending among nuclear-armed states on weapons of mass destruction. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has released a report, warning nuclear weapons haven't played such a prominent role in global relations, since the Cold War.

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00.00 Intro
00.32 DW talks to Dan Smith, the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
04:59 Jim Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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