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Number of online news articles mentioning selected keyword combinations related to nuclear weapons worldwide from 2017 to 2024 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Nuclear + war	Nuclear + weapons	Nuclear + conflict	Nuclear + threat	Nuclear + missile	Nuclear + bomb	Nuclear + submarine
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Release date

February 2025

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022 to 2024

Supplementary notes

The mentions refer to the GDELT database which translates articles in 65 languages into English. The figures represent the total number of all articles GDELT monitored during that time interval which include the search term at least once.

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Online news coverage of nuclear weapons and the nuclear threat significantly increased in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Over the course of that year, over ** online articles were published in ** languages across the globe mentioning the word "war" in combination with "nuclear." In 2023, that figure decreased to approximately **. In February 2023, Russia suspended its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States.

However, the number of articles on the topic increased not only due to the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. In the fall of 2022, global media widely covered tests of nuclear-capable missiles by North Korea. At the beginning of the observed period, the article count was higher due to the coverage of tensions between North Korea and the United States over the former's nuclear program as well as the United States' withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal, in 2018.