US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — The United 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 Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.

The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.

"We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons.

The U.S. has previously regarded such details as top secret

The figure includes both "strategic," or long-range weapons, and those intended for use at shorter range.

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Very bold move I'm sure the GOP will be up in arms about Obama making us "unsafe".

a hypocrite on the issue like all the Republicans.

4,200 would have been plenty..

but we're not supposed to know about that :silly: :crazy: :hide: