Of the nine nuclear armed powers, the US spends the largest amount of money on its nuclear weapons although it does not have the largest nuclear arsenal.

Running a significant budget deficit of $1.83 trillion, the United States plans to spend up to $1.5 trillion over 30 years to overhaul its nuclear arsenal.

The Russian leader also said that the Kremlin is ready “for a broad international discussion of these vital issues” with NATO.

The North Korean leader has ordered the mass production of tactical nuclear weapons to counter the threat from the United States to his country’s sovereignty.

Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki says Israel must join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and eliminate its stockpile of nuclear arms.

With the increasingly decrepit US nuclear infrastructure and lack of suitable oversight, a serious nuclear weapons incident could be just around the corner and the Pentagon even has a phrase for it: Broken Arrow.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on March 17, 2021.