U.S. STRATEGIC DEPLOYED STOCKPILE SLOWLY SHRINKING UNDER NEW START

摘要

The United States is continuing to slowly reduce its strategic deployed nuclear stockpile under the counting rules of the New START Treaty, according to the twice yearly exchange of data released about U.S. and Russian weapons required under the New START Treaty. As of March 1, the U.S. has 1,737 strategic deployed nuclear warheads, the State Department said in a release this week, down from 1,790 six months ago and 1,800 a year ago. Russia reduced the size of its strategic deployed stockpile to 1,492, below the 1,550-warhead ceiling established by the treaty, after going over the cap with 1,566 warheads in the last exchange of data between the two countries six months ago.