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by F Dubya on May 24th, 2005

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How many nuclear weapons does the United States currently have?

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  • by wickedwillie on May 28th, 2005

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    Although the United States has produced something like 70,000 nuclear weapons of 71 major types since their invention, there are now roughly 9600 nuclear weapons of 10 major types (as determined by the official designation system) in the U.S. arsenal. The official name of this arsenal is the "Enduring Stockpile" and it is divided into three categories of warhead readiness.

    The three levels of stockpile readiness are:
    -Active Service: Fully operational and mated with delivery systems
    -"Hedge" Stockpile: Fully operational (or can be made so on short notice) but kept in storage away from delivery systems, delivery systems are available for them however (this category currently has no weapons assigned to it)
    -Inactive Reserve: Weapon is kept basically intact, but is not maintained in operational condition (this principally means that tritium will not be stockpiled to charge the weapons tritium reservoirs), these weapons may not have ready-made delivery systems available

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    • Thank you, now what about the ones we're not supposed to know about?

      An0nym0us

      by An0nym0us on June 1st, 2005

    • Anonymous, what ones we're not supposed to know about? ;-)

      Glenn Blaylock

      by Glenn Blaylock on November 24th, 2005

    • The ones orbiting the planet, lodged in satellites?

      Halskiisaklink

      by Halskiisaklink on December 15th, 2006

    • all of these nuclear weapons and I hear only 6 can decimate the world. How lovely.

      KiloWattKid

      by KiloWattKid on June 17th, 2009

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