{"id":64965,"date":"2024-06-17T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:00:08","slug":"global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64965","title":{"rendered":"Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>States are on course to spend $100bn a year, driven by a sharp increase in US defence budgets<\/p>\n<p>Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023, according to calculations from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) pressure group.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icanw.org\/surge_2023_global_nuclear_weapons_spending?utm_campaign=press_release_spending_2023&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ican\">new total<\/a>, which is up $10.7bn from the previous year, is driven largely by sharply increased defence budgets in the US, at a time of wider geopolitical uncertainty caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/global-spending-on-nuclear-weapons-up-13-in-record-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States are on course to spend $100bn a year, driven by a sharp increase in US defence budgetsGlobal spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023, according to calculations from the International Camp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,526,441,419,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-france","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64966,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64965\/revisions\/64966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}