How much news coverage is Nuclear Proliferation receiving right now?

As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.001% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 4 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Nuclear Proliferation increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is down 5.3% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Nuclear Proliferation?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -1.52, which reads as mildly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Nuclear Proliferation

Nuclear Proliferation accounts for 0.001% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 20, 2026 (4 matched articles/day). Coverage is down 5.3% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -1.52 — mildly negative.

Coverage of nuclear weapons programs, enrichment disputes, arms control, and the IAEA.

Data updated: August 20, 2026 · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.001%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

-5.3%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

-1.52

mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 1.6 anxiety · 10.8 anger · 32.3 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By source country

Syria Volume Intensity8.8%
Lithuania Volume Intensity4.4%
Austria Volume Intensity4.0%
Hungary Volume Intensity3.7%
Slovak Republic Volume Intensity3.2%
Pakistan Volume Intensity3.2%
Cambodia Volume Intensity3.2%
Australia Volume Intensity2.8%

By language

English100.0%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-20). Tone split: 50% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Countries where Nuclear Proliferation coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage -5.3%, reader interest +7.3%.

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Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Nuclear Proliferation receiving right now?: As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.001% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 4 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Nuclear Proliferation increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is down 5.3% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
What is the tone of news coverage about Nuclear Proliferation?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -1.52, which reads as mildly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
How are these numbers measured?: Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).