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  1. May 7, 2024 · In this issue of the Nuclear Notebook, FAS estimates that the United States maintains a stockpile of approximately 3,708 warheads—an unchanged estimate from the previous year. The total number of U.S. nuclear warheads are now estimated to include 1,770 deployed warheads, 1,938 reserved for operational forces.

  2. The below figure shows the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile from 1945 through September 30, 2020. Warhead Dismantlement. From fiscal years 1994 through 2020, the United States dismantled 11,683 nuclear warheads. Since September 30, 2017, the United States has dismantled 711 nuclear warheads.

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  4. Oct 6, 2021 · In Tuesday’s release, the State Department said there are 3,750 nuclear warheads in the US nuclear stockpile as of September 2020, an 88 percent decrease from its maximum number of 31,255 in ...

  5. Jul 2, 2020 · The United States’ total nuclear inventory is 5,550, with around 3,800 active warheads in the stockpile and another 1,750 retired warheads awaiting dismantlement. Under the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( New START), the United States is allowed 1,550 nuclear warheads on 800 strategic launchers, only 700 of which can be deployed. Air.

  6. Oct 4, 2021 · U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile from 1945 through September 30, 2020. From fiscal years 1994 through 2020, the United States dismantled 11,683 nuclear warheads. Since September 30, 2017, the United States has dismantled 711 nuclear warheads. Approximately 2,000 additional nuclear warheads are currently retired and awaiting dismantlement.

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  7. Jan 16, 2023 · At the beginning of 2023, the US Department of Defense maintained an estimated stockpile of approximately 3,708 nuclear warheads for delivery by ballistic missiles and aircraft. Most of the warheads in the stockpile are not deployed but rather stored for potential upload onto missiles and aircraft as necessary. We estimate that approximately 1,770 warheads are … Continued

  8. The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Before and during the Cold War, it conducted 1,054 nuclear tests, and tested many long-range nuclear weapons delivery systems. [Note 1]

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