A report reveals that nuclear powers have increased spending on a scale never seen before.
A report from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons shows that spending on such munitions has skyrocketed.
The world's nine nuclear-armed nations have spent nearly $100 billion in a single year.
Stockpiles of nuclear warheads have been reduced since the height of the Cold War.
But the skyrocketing new spending raises the question of why these countries are willing to spend such incredible sums of money on atomic weapons and whether they are making the world safer.
Presenter: Neave Barker
Guests:
Nikolai Sokov – Senior Researcher at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Gary Samore – Professor at Brandeis University
Victor Gao – Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization
