New Delhi, June 17 -- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed in its new yearbook 2025 that nine countries worldwide possess as many as 12,241 nuclear weapons as of January 1, 2025.

The new report comes amid the ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said that "Iran can't have a nuclear weapon".

Amid the war and chaos in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine, the SIPRI Yearbook 2025 showed that "a dangerous new nuclear arms race is emerging at a time when arms control regimes are severely weakened".

The report further named the "nine states (countries)" which have nuclear warheads, and also men...