have fears that washington and moscow might be slipping into a new arms race reaction from nato stefania chief after this report. a disused nuclear warhead is being dismantled this is what the future of nuclear weaponry looked like until now that is. i want this our nuclear arsenal. to be the biggest and the finest in the world and we spent a lot of money a lot of time a lot of effort at a tip top shape and getting better. only a small number of countries in the world possess nuclear weapons russia and the us are by far the biggest player as between them they own more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear arsenal while russia is estimated to have seven thousand nuclear warheads the us has six thousand eight hundred though only a fraction of them actually deployed and ready for action for. you the proclamation of the treaty for your signature. ever since the end of the cold war the us and russia have steadily reduced the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenals a series of agreements signed by successive governments committed the two countries to a path of nuclear disarmament. but