{"id":5165,"date":"2026-04-24T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:50:32","slug":"un-atomic-head-warns-of-extreme-danger-as-six-new-countries-look-to-acquire-their-own-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5165","title":{"rendered":"UN atomic head warns of \u2018extreme danger\u2019 as six new countries look to acquire their own nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>He said a nuclear arms race was his \u2018worst fear\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>There is concern that six new countries could develop their own nuclear weapons, according to the UN\u2019s atomic agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, has expressed concern over talk of \u201cfriendly nuclear proliferation\u201d in \u201ca few important countries\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In six countries without nuclear weapons, leaders have openly discussed developing their own arsenals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:0\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>This has led the UN&#8217;s atomic agency to warn that the world is at risk of a fresh nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned that some of the 191 signatories to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) could begin breaching the pact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:1\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to Grossi, this could potentially trigger a \u201cdomino\u201d effect in which nuclear weapons could be pursued by as many as twenty states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Among the countries who have debated acquiring their own nuclear arsenals are Poland, South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:2\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Meanwhile, should global instability increase and NATO weaken, officials in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Sweden have suggested they may consider doing so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a few important countries \u2026 in Europe, in Asia Minor, in the Far East that have mentioned [it] and where a public discussion is taking place about this possibility\u201d, Grossi told The Telegraph in an interview published this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cThere is talk about &#8216;friendly proliferation&#8217;. There are all these things which fill me with concern because I believe that a world with 20 nuclear weapon states or more would be extremely dangerous\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He said a nuclear arms race was his &#8220;worst fear&#8221;, adding: \u201cAt some point, we are going to see a crack in the system. And then we\u2019ll have a domino [effect]. It is a very, very fragile position\u201d, Grossi added, as he said that a nuclear arms race was his \u201cworst fear\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The only five countries in the world recognised by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as nuclear-weapon states are the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$?--><template id=\"B:3\"\/><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, of the world&#8217;s more than 12,300 nuclear warheads, Russia holds 5459, the US 5277 and the UK 225.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#atomic #warns #extreme #danger #countries #acquire #nukes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said a nuclear arms race was his \u2018worst fear\u2019 There is concern that six new countries could develop their own nuclear weapons, according to the UN\u2019s atomic agency. The head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, has expressed concern over talk of \u201cfriendly nuclear proliferation\u201d in \u201ca few important countries\u201d. In six countries without nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1341,5348,1635,2485,5349,3959,2639,4356,5347,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-5165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-acquire","9":"tag-atomic","10":"tag-countries","11":"tag-danger","12":"tag-extreme","13":"tag-nuclear-war","14":"tag-nuclear-weapons","15":"tag-nukes","16":"tag-united-nations","17":"tag-warns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}