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SIPRI Yearbook 2026
June 11 , 2026
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- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its Yearbook 2026, highlighting global military spending, arms imports, and nuclear arsenals.
- SIPRI estimates that India's nuclear stockpile increased to about 190 warheads by early 2026.
- India remained the world’s fifth-largest military spender, with defence expenditure of $92.1 billion in 2025.
- India was the second-largest importer of major arms during 2021–25, accounting for 8.2% of global arms imports.
- Globally, the nine nuclear-armed countries possessed about 12,187 nuclear warheads at the beginning of 2026.
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