UNITED STATES NUCLEAR ARSENAL

Complete List of All U.S. Nuclear Weapons

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U.S. Nuclear Weapon Enduring Stockpile

Last changed 31 August 2007

The U.S. nuclear arsenal is divided into three levels of stockpile readiness. These are:

* Operationally Deployed: These are active stockpile (fully operational) weapons and mated with delivery systems such that they are ready to be used in combat. All warheads counted under arms limitation agreements belong to this category.
* Active Stockpile: Fully operational weapons, available for immediate use, whether or not they are operationally deployed. Reasons for an active stockpile weapon to not be operationally deployed include:
o Its assigned to a delivery system is not currently operational (in particular ballistic missile submarines spend one-third of their time not on patrol),
o It is a spare for deployed warheads (should a deployed warhead require maintenance, for example), and
o It is part of the responsive force -- an inventory of warheads that are kept in operational condition (tritium reservoirs installed, etc.) to permit immediate deployment (for example to upload the number of wartheads on a ballistic missile, or reloads for bomber aircraft).
* Inactive Reserve: Weapons that are kept intact, but are not maintained in operational condition. This means that limited life components are removed from the weapons and may not be available to immediately return them to service. "Limited life components" principally mean tritium-containing components such as tritium reservoirs and neutron generator tubes. Some weapons currently in this category (e.g. the W84) will be dismantled.

At the beginning of 2007 the U.S. nuclear arsenal was composed of eight types of nuclear warheads (in thirteen variant mods) that are operationally deployed, with an estiamted count of 5,736 active stockpile warheads. For the first time the 2007 Annual Report on Implementation of the Moscow Treaty listed the aggregate number of U.S. operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads which as of 31 December 2006 stood at 3,696. No official breakdown of this number is available, however if one assumes that ICBMs have 95% availability, 66% of SLBMs are on patrol, and 90% of bombers are on-duty with their full combat load, then this tally exactly matches the offical operational count.

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50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.
- Except where noted all figures are in constant 1996 dollars -


1. Cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945): $20,000,000,000

SOURCES: Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume 1, 1939/1946 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee: U.S. AEC Technical Information Center, 1972), pp. 723-724; Condensed AEC Annual Financial Report, FY 1953 (in Fifteenth Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission, January 1954, p. 73)

2. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project

3. Estimated construction costs for more than 1,000 ICBM launch pads and silos, and support facilities, from 1957-1964: nearly $14,000,000,000

Maj. C.D. Hargreaves, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Construction Office (CEBMCO), "Introduction to the CEBMCO Historical Report and History of the Command Section, Pre-CEBMCO Thru December 1962," p. 8; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Construction Office, "U.S. Air Force ICBM Construction Program," undated chart (circa 1965)

4. Total number of nuclear bombers built, 1945-present: 4,680

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project

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No, really. God came down from the sky and said: "The United States and Israel shall be allowed Nuclear Weapons. Other Nations? Not so much. And don't even get me started on those A-Rabs."

And, they're not even Arabs.

toward global nuclear disarmament.

Gladly unrec'd!!!

Oh, well, maybe they'll be left with G-d's last bomb.

WHAT?

I promise it won't hurt teh brain!!!

have some crystal ball or can read minds to make some stupid judgement like that. It's not historical , it's been attempted before , read some history instead of jumping in without a clue other than your belief in Obama will save the world hype.

That's a very low bar.

Now, if he had announced a 90% unilateral reduction in nukes, then I'd be impressed.

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this post provides some context to that so-called "accomplishment?"

I'm trying to understand your unrec here... Obama takes some symbolic action reaffirming a goal of eliminating nukes on Earth... a DUer makes a post intended to educate people about the size and scope of the US nuke arsenal... Then you unrec it.

I think this makes you look like a real extreme reactionary... oh wait...

Yesterday, the international community voted an important measure on nuclear disarmament.

The OPer cites a 2 year old Bush era article and claims nothing has changed.

The OPer generally relies on material from a millionaire disinfo agent posing as a Trostkyite who just happens to be anti-Democrat, anti-British Labour, anti-Green, anti-union, anti-progressive, anti-Democratic Socialist, anti-Social Democrat because he's just so much more radical than the rest of us.

Forgive me if I don't take the OPer seriously.

You are every bit as reactionary as any Bush supporter could possibly be. Your constant frothing is no substitute for actual information.

A few pretty words from your icon and you are swooning. What an easily led acolyte you are. Hope it pays well.

Till then, you are morally beyond the pale of polite conversation.

(See how it works? On an internet discussion board, anyone can falsely accuse anyone else of taking preposterous positions.)

Really, stop and think about it ... at some point along the way, a very limited group of people got together and decided it was a GOOD idea to create thousands of extinction ensuring weapons that can wipe out millions at a time. How utterly fucking grotesque.

that we have the power to nuke the world 67,500 times over.:sarcasm: And that is not even including the stockpiles of the Russkies, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistani's, the Israeli's, the French, the Brits, and so on.

Why don't we know about their nukes?

Summary of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal:

The U.S. is continuing with some modernization of the nuclear arsenal. Under the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review, approved in September 1994, the U.S. will retain 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines -- the four oldest ones will be retired, while the next four oldest, which were designed to fire the Trident I C-4 SLBM, will be backfitted to fire the larger Trident II D-5. Half the operational strategic deterrent force will be based on these Ohio SSBNs, which remain at sea 2/3 of the time. The Minuteman IIIs received an upgrade and overhaul to extend their lifespan, though the force was reduced from 530 to 500 at the end of FY 1998. Short-range attack missiles have been retired.

The START II Treaty, slated for entry into force in 2003, will limit the strategic arsenal to 3,500 deployed warheads. This will consist of 14 Ohio-class submarines, each carrying 24 Trident II missiles, 500 Minuteman III missiles with a single warhead, 66 B-52Hs carrying nor more than 1,000 air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs), and advanced cruise missiles (ACM), and 20 B-2's carrying up to 16 gravity bombs each. But there will be also be 950 tactical weapons (largely gravity bombs and sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs)), and 2,500 reserve weapons and 2,500 warheads in inactive reserve. These could easily be uploaded onto the START II delivery systems to provide rapid "breakout" capability. The U.S. has resisted Russian overtures for a START III treaty, maintaining that START II should be implemented before negotiations begin.

Strategic Nuclear Weapons: 7,300

Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons: 4,700-11,700

Total Nuclear Weapons: 12,000-19,000

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