for the rare event cause solar flares that meant the dancing lights could be seen much further south than usual. and we ended there coming up tensions among the world's nuclear powers or on the rise. we're going to take a look at that state to unlike local more news at the beginning of the next hour. the, every jenny is far less surprising. we've gone all out to give you some of the right people in your northern most count the police the 3 times long, but still very much alive. dw channels. your guy to the specialist, austin,

germany recognizes where exactly. i learned a lot of our culture history. you travel extremely worth a visit. the sudden that's with the closing and a new kid capable of strategic from the u. s. ballistic missile cemetery in showing up at the show stuff. she brought him into the construction side in the middle of the chinese desert. you silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles. dozens of them. these recent examples of the 3 biggest of new pay up, how was displaying modernizing and increasing the us know. there's no doubt in my mind that the, the risk of nuclear weapons coming into use is increasing and has increased significantly during the cold score

a system of the car and kept things in check. today the more active and key, let's say for the nuclear order of control treaties, all of that is under a lot of stress. the age of disarmament is over newcastle, close and growing again. so we stumbled into another and more dangerous. right? the, the only time nuclear weapons were used in the conflict was in august 1945, when the us strep thumbs on iraq. shima is like a saki and japan. this was the blast radius of the bomb dropped on hiroshima, push killed up to 140000 people and this would be the devastation, 2 days, largest bombs in the american awesome. it would cost lucky the nuclear weapons having destroyed the world. yet, even though that could have happened during the cold war and

the number of nuclear warheads reached 70000 at the peak. this was due to the race between the soviet union. and to do that it states both in 2000 nuclear tests, such as here and us talk you soon and report to the competition 3. yeah, i do not know. i hear of retaliation prevented both from pushing the button 1st. the principal calls mutually assured destruction. eventually, after the series of arms control treaties and the contents of the soviet union came mass us disarmament. the number of nuclear warheads went down to over 12000 to date . still enough to destroy the bills multiple times. 9 countries half knew most keep the exact size of the us know secret, but according to estimates the us and russia still the big players today. china is awesome though is much smaller. but stead of me growing,

we get to that. and then the countries like north korea, india pack is done from the united kingdom, the history of this police to be one of those, but has never officially confirmed it has nukes. but just as we still at the new address was the thing of the past. the new nuclear stress test starts the 3 reasons brush that's war against you. crane the contents of control and china as nuclear builds up ever since russia who's k, that they, you know, keep train. the kremlin has made a series of new test wrists like this towards the western nations must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory and they have to do to still pursue it. so all of this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons conflict them and the destruction of civilization as much as the we showing them civil is that's right from the beginning of that war of nuclear weapons were as brought out

rabbit, so to speak, um, by the russians to say to the west, listen, don't go him directly here and try to stop us. hans christensen is the director of the nuclear inflammation project at the federation of american scientists. the organization, advocates for transparency and risk reduction from nuclear weapons. we've seen the way they talk about needs of weapons and the potential role that weapons involve uh, quite significantly, in the sense that it became more explicit by threatening to break the nucleotide bu prudent is throwing the system off, determines off balance. in 2023, he announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons 2 neighboring bella roofs. it's the 1st time russia since nuclear weapons outside of its own territory. this is where the nukes could be. storage and military depot and central mother was precious as a descending tactical nuclear weapons. but you have a range of

a few 100 kilometers low i yields and are supposed to have a battlefield purpose. these are different from strategic nuclear weapons, which could wipe out an entire city, thousands of kilometers away. technical nuclear weapons and fell arrows are a threat to nato's eastern members. but russia, as believe to already have tactical nukes and come in and brought it's west and exclaim, giving of those some of the reach of a native territory. i interpret the better roost deployment decision more as a political signal, as opposed to being driven by military or strategic necessity on the russian side or no, no to is direct us. you raise your at the james martin, center for nonproliferation studies. she specializes in russian foreign policy and arms control. i would contextualize this decision to, to move nuclear weapons to better was into this general array of measures that russia has taken in order to heighten the temperature and make us in the west. feel

that the risk of nuclear war is increasing due to russia, nate to begin wrestling its own nuclear savers in europe, on the fronds and the okay, you have to own nukes. there are some 100 nuclear warheads from the united states deployed to bases in belgium, the netherlands, germany, italy, and turkey. did us maintain control over the weapons? that's in a conflict the bombs would be mounted on hosts, nation war plains. here, dutch pilots, a training for just such a scenario. now preparations are running high to put u. s. nukes also have this database and the okay. just 100 kilometers northeast of london. it really started after rushes, invasion of crime here in 2014. that's when we started seeing real changes happening in the way the americans planned the role of nuclear weapons in defense of your us as also bringing its nuclear submarines and from the us to europe. more

often like this b 52 overs to comb. they're going further east, they're going into the areas where they happened. they didn't used to go at all. um, i mean, sometimes very offensive ways in march 2023, for example, in american b, 52 bomber conducted maneuvers over europe, heading towards st. petersburg and turning around just before it goes to russian f . space in your face exercise. russia similarly flexing, that's muscle. flex here in 2021. and the bumper maneuver over of all succeed. in the past, the u. s. and russia had at least notified each other in advance. the vote exercise was like this. that was part of the new start trading is also kept the list of the number of strategic nuclear weapons, the ones which can destroy the whole city of the being launched from a different continent. this and other agreements between the 2 sides are designed

to build trust for verification and let's russia into us to reduce desktop fire. that's after attacking you train russia suspended participation in the treaty and already before in 2019 on this from to feed us out of the treat, the bending mid range missiles like these something between tactical and strategic weapons, especially with trump. plus, i'm happy that the treaty does not include u. s. rivals in asia. we really have no choice. perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding china and others. or perhaps we can in which case we will out spend and out end of a all others by far aggressive frederick for just for just the new new order. today, 6 out of the 9 new just dates are adding to desktops sites, especially one of them. we have china that is

rapidly building up its own nuclear arsenal, and modernizing and so far, refusing to be engaged in arms control talks because it hasn't yet reached what it was called. parity with united states and russia. here in the desert near the northwest and the city of human, china has built more than 100 new side of these uh, storage and launching sites for icbm. and the last 10 years alone, china has doubled its nuclear inventory. it is estimated that the country now has around $500.00 warheads and is projected to grow further. is a dramatic change for the chinese of course, because all the previous decades, they have consistent that they were not in arms raised. they didn't need more than just a small number of weapons to make the point to other countries, which is like, don't do something stupid. they clearly class decided that, that it's no longer china. it's never explained why it is expanding. it's r as no.

and how far it wants to go. and then let's say teaching considered as far as know to vulnerable to an attack. so what does this mean for the new nuclear arms race? remember, the idea of mutually assured destruction we mentioned before. in the cold war, 2 sides mentioned each other as new numbers to keep the arrival in check. striking a balance will be much harder with sweet play us into you with addition on notice of aging, how to confirm to me appear to your adversary in case russia and china joint forces . the dining of the new nuclear capable be 21 is just the 1st glimpse of the u. s. new modernization program. the total price tech to update us nuclear weapons could reach $1.00 trillion dollars over the next 30 years. so new news, more news and more dangerous. well, the system of the terrance was beginning to falter. getting it back under control

will be even harder this time. we only have experience in the past of doing arms control and between the soviet union and the united states. we don't really have any experience doing multi acting pianist control agreements. so what does that mean for the future? the sale use of youtube weapons, their value in the minds of military and political leaders is increasing, then sends the message also to non nuclear states. we now have new countries in asia, in the maybe east and even in europe. thinking about whether they might need a nuclear weapons capability off their own. the new nuclear arms race is picking up speed and without new rules and place. it will be hard to stop the kind

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