Archive for December 6th, 2025

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06/12/2025

What Happens If Nuclear Weapons Are Used?

Human Wrongs Watch

By The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in their uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout, they are unlike any other weapons.

the mushroom cloud photographed from the ground of the 09 August 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.A mushroom cloud after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing over 73,000 people. Keystone / Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

A single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people. The use of tens or hundreds of nuclear bombs would disrupt the global climate, causing widespread famine.

If a nuclear weapon detonates, what happens?

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06/12/2025

SIPRI Top 100 Arms Producers See Combined Revenues Surge as States Rush to Modernize and Expand Arsenals

Human Wrongs Watch

By the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)*

(Stockholm) Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion, according to new data released on 1 December 2025 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), available at www.sipri.org.

The Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall partnered Global Mobile Artillery Rocket System (GMARS) live fired for the first time at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico ( August 2025, Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)

The Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall partnered Global Mobile Artillery Rocket System (GMARS) live fired for the first time at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, August 2025. Photo: US Army

Global arms revenues rose sharply in 2024, as demand was boosted by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, global and regional geopolitical tensions, and ever-higher military expenditure.

For the first time since 2018, all of the five largest arms companies increased their arms revenues.

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06/12/2025

Any Resumption of US Tests May Trigger Threats from Other Nuclear Powers

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 2025 (IPS)* –– President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to resume nuclear testing rekindles nightmares of a bygone era where military personnel and civilians were exposed to devastating radioactive fallouts.
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A nuclear test is carried out on an island in French Polynesia in 1971. Credit: CTBTO

In the five decades between 1945 and the opening for the signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out all over the world. The United States conducted 1,032 tests between 1945 and 1992.

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