The post-Cold War promise of a world without nuclear war is fading, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

Russian President Vladmir Putin has touted his nuclear arsenal at the same time North Korea’s arsenal is expanding and Iran is developing nuclear weapons, the Journal reported. A treaty between the U.S. and Russia that caps how may nuclear weapons both countries deploy expires in 2026.

“The shared consensus among great powers on the importance of nonproliferation — which was critical to building and sustaining the nonproliferation regime since the 1960s — has eroded,” said Eric Brewer, a former director for counterproliferation at the National Security Council to the Journal. “I think at a minimum we’re going to end up in a world with more countries that are capable of building nuclear weapons.”

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