WASHINGTON – The Joint States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Chilled Against and now shrinking rapidly.
The Obama government disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile booming uphold to 1962 as business of a stump to progress other nuclear nations to be more nearing, and to recondition its bargaining outlook against the thought of a nuclear Iran.
"We characterize as it is in our national security importance to be as transparent as we can be here the atomic program of the Communal States," Secretary of Circumstances Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the Merged Nations, where she addressed a talk on containing the spread of atomic weapons.
The U.S. has in olden days regarded such details as superior secret.
The statue includes both "vital," or long-range weapons, and those intended suitable use at shorter range.
The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.
A uncouth quantify of deployed and hold warheads has been known to save years, so the Pentagon figures do not forecast atomic experts much they don't already know.
Hans Kristensen, director of Nuclear News Programme, Confederation of American Scientists in Washington, said his organizing had already put the number at all 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents.
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