A new nuke wave washes over the world

By Colin Demarest – AXIOS

The big picture: Decades of order now feel disordered. Proliferation is again a kitchen-table topic; your parents are probably sending you headlines right now.

• An ascendant China, a trigger-happy Russia and rollercoaster politics in the U.S., among other factors, are prompting conversations of the deadliest stakes. Nukes are no joke.

Driving the news: The Federation of American Scientists warned in its latest accounting that Beijing has “significantly expanded” its program by “fielding more types and greater numbers of nuclear weapons than ever before.”