U.S. STRATEGIC DEPLOYED STOCKPILE DIPS TO 1,722 UNDER NEW START TREATY

摘要

The United States is continuing its slow descent toward the 1,550-warhead cap on its strategic deployed stockpile set by the New START Treaty and had 1,722 warheads under the treaty's counting rules as of Sept. 1, the State Department said this week. The stockpile number, released twice a year under declarations required through the New START Treaty with Russia, represents a 15 warhead decrease from the U.S. declaration in February, and is down from 1,800 when the treaty went into force in February of 2011. Russia's strategic deployed stockpile increased slightly as of Sept. 1, rising to 1,499, up from 1,492 Feb. 1, but it's down from a New START-high of 1,566 reported by Russia a year ago. In its first declaration under the treaty, Russia had 1,537 warheads.