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China and the Uniked Kingdom have started a new arms race over who has the smallest nuclear weapons arsenal. |
By Hans M. Kristensen
Mine is smaller! No, mine is smaller!!
China and the United Kingdom have started a new type of nuclear arms race for the honor to have the smallest number of nuclear weapons.
In April 2004, the Chinese Foreign Ministry declared in the fact sheet China: Nuclear Disarmament and Reduction of: “Among the nuclear-weapon states, China…possesses the smallest nuclear arsenal.”
In May 2007, British Defense Minister Des Browne stated in a written response to a parliamentary question that the United Kingdom has “the smallest stockpile of any of the nuclear weapon states recognised under the NPT.”
Apparently, the race is on for who is the smallest.
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