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The Enduring Stockpile is the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons following the end of the Cold War. During the Cold War the United States produced over 70,000 nuclear weapons. By its end, the U.S. stockpile was about 23,000 weapons of 26 different types.
At the peak of its arsenal in 1988, Russia possessed around 45,000 nuclear weapons in its stockpile, roughly 13,000 more than the United States arsenal, the second largest in the world, which peaked in 1966. [2] Tests; Torpedoes 53-58 torpedo with 10 kilotons RDS-9 warhead; 65-73 torpedo with 20 kilotons; VA-111 Shkval with 150 kilotons; Bombs
After the 1989 end of the Cold War and the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, the U.S. nuclear program was heavily curtailed; halting its program of nuclear testing, ceasing its production of new nuclear weapons, and reducing its stockpile by half by the mid-1990s under President Bill Clinton. Many former nuclear facilities were closed, and ...
The United States destroyed 89.75% of the original stockpile of nearly 31,100 metric tons (30,609 long tons) of nerve and mustard agents under the terms of the treaty. [41] Chemical weapons destruction resumed in 2015. [42] The country's last stockpile was at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. [43]
China developed its first nuclear weapon in 1964; its nuclear stockpile increased until the early 1980s, when it stabilized at between 200 and 260. [1] India became a nuclear power in 1974, while Pakistan developed its first nuclear weapon in the 1980s. [1] [21] India and Pakistan currently have around one hundred nuclear weapons each. [19]
The Ukraine war is a wake-up call for NATO to stockpile more ammunition. NATO states need more ammo and defense production to replace losses in a long war. Powers like Russia and China have ...
Armed with a large, diverse stockpile of missiles and attack drones, the Houthis have launched more than 130 attacks on vessels transiting shipping lanes off the coast of Yemen. They have struck a ...
In a new executive order, President Trump says his team will coordinate a massive effort to expand and refocus the Strategic National Stockpile after it ran out of critical medical supplies soon ...