The State Department released the latest count of U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles yesterday under the terms of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). The release comes from the biannual exchange of the data required under the treaty that binds the United States and Russia to reduce deployed nuclear warheads to 1,550 by 2018. As of Sept. 1, the U.S. arsenal included 822 deployed ICBMs, 1,790 warheads deployed on missiles, submarines and heavy bombers, and 1,043 and deployed…
U.S. Releases New START Compliance Figures
Defense Daily Staff
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