New Delhi, June 17 -- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed in its new yearbook 2025 that nine countries worldwide possess a total of 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 said, "Iran can't have a nuclear weapon".

Amid the war and chaos in the Middle East, and in 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 mentioned...