In the midst of geopolitical tensions, the world is rearming itself. Not since the Cold War has nuclear weapons played such an important role, but now the nine nuclear weapons states are modernizing and increasing their arsenals. Between the United States and Russia they possess 90% of all nuclear warheads while China is the country that is increasing its arsenal the fastest.

The director of ‘The Political Room’, Yago Rodríguez, explains that it is “very sophisticated weaponrywhich go far beyond their use, which enters a field called deterrence, which acts before you act, which prevents you from doing things because of the simple fear that it can cause you.

Against the backdrop of Ukraine, nuclear bombs have never had so much power in international politics since the Cold War. Yago Rodríguez insists that these weapons “make it possible to establish an iron framework and prevent third parties from accessing the conflict, and for Russia it has been very important to prevent NATO from intervening.”

A weapon of mass destruction and deterrence predominantly in the hands of the United States and Russia, but with the shadow of another nuclear power. And, as Yago Rodríguez says, “China wants to go from a minimum deterrence arsenal to an arsenal typical of a nuclear power consolidated at the level of the United States and Russia. “Therefore it is in a very secret, but surely very ambitious program of arsenal growth.”

Franco’s secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb

There are nine countries with this type of weapons, nuclear powers that Spain once wanted to join. José Luis Hernández Garvi, writer and historian, explains to laSexta that “Spain could have become a military nuclear power.” “We were frankly, very close, we had the necessary financing and means,” he says.

It was about Islero project, Franco’s secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb in Spain. As soon as the 1950s began, the first steps were taken to achieve a nuclear reactor. A project that was advancing, but was paralyzed by international pressures. As the historian says, “the North American administration issues a series of documents, warning about the risk that there may be if Spain is allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Documents that remind us of those we can currently see from Iran or North Korea “.

Thus, it ended up adhering to the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Then, it was the end of the Islero project and the aspirations of turning Spain into a nuclear power.