There used to be a time when you could go for years without reading an article in a mainstream news outlet on nuclear weapons. Not any more. Now they regularly crop up and as I’ve said before that should tell you something. The last round-up on nuclear weapons was back in May and at regular intervals we see evidence of the decaying of long held norms around nuclear weapons.

North Korea is now an established nuclear nation and is on course, within the coming decade, to build a stockpile of warheads larger than the UK’s. That makes nuclear weapons a live issue in Seoul and Tokyo. The regime in Iran almost certainly realises that its long-term survival rests on acquiring nuclear weapons making them a live issue in Ankara and Riyadh. Russia’s depleted conventional forces push it ever closer to using a tactical nuclear weapon and that worries governments all across Europe including the one in Stockholm.

But we’re not at the Apocalypse yet. Check the status of the end of days in the final link.

• World leaders are losing their terror of nuclear war
• More evidence of China’s rush to build a huge nuclear arsenal
• US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
• Sweden Walked Away From the Bomb. Now It’s Rethinking Deterrence
• Why the Bomb Is Bad for Democracy
• North Korea Stopped Nuclear Testing in 2017 – But Triggered Nearly 1,400 Earthquakes Since
• 2 Words in an Overlooked Flight Log Reveal a Chilling Detail About The Hiroshima Bombing
• This Is How Nuclear Weapon Detection Could Work in Space
• The excess pessimism of early nuclear bomb designers
• The World’s First Nuclear Waste Tomb Is Nearly Ready to Open
• Apocalypse Early Warning System