National Security Geopolitics, defence & deterrence

Nuclear proliferation

Weaker security guarantees and regional wars are leading more states to seek nuclear weapons or the capacity to build them quickly, raising requirements for strategic warning, non-proliferation enforcement and extended deterrence.

Rank: 26; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 4.1×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 406; 100 is the typical trend
Change: +10%; WoW
Volatility: ±4%; Shifting

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

Latin America & Caribbean

Europe

6.0×

#41

4.1×

#87

3.4×

#71

3.4×

#58

3.3×

#68

2.9×

#91

2.8×

#66

2.4×

#65

2.1×

#108

1.9×

#91

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

4.2×

#45

4.2×

#32

3.7×

#32

3.4×

#44

3.4×

#72

3.2×

#59

3.1×

#64

2.9×

#64

2.8×

#66

2.8×

#37

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

13×

#24

7.9×

#40

6.6×

#12

5.6×

#41

4.9×

#92

4.7×

#52

4.6×

#60

4.2×

#68

4.2×

#47

4.0×

#67

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 49.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Nuclear proliferation, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.