Nuclear warheads in usable stockpiles are increasing, the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor warned Monday, along with its partner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The monitor said that nine nuclear-armed states had a combined arsenal of 12,705 nuclear warheads at the start of 2022. An estimated 9,440 warheads – with a collective yield equivalent to around 138,000 Hiroshima bombs – constituted usable stockpiles for use by the nuclear-armed states on their missiles… YeniSafak Photo: Russian Ministry of Defence