The United States is releasing new declassified information on the US nuclear weapons stockpile, according to which, as of September 2023, the US nuclear warhead arsenal consisted of 3,748 units. This was reported by the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) of the United States, UNN reports.
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This number represents an 88% reduction in stockpiles from the peak of 31,255 warheads at the end of fiscal year 1967 and an 83% reduction from the level of 22,217 warheads at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
The NNSA indicated that from fiscal years 1994 to 2023, the United States dismantled 12,088 nuclear warheads. Since September 30, 2020, the United States has dismantled 405 nuclear warheads. Approximately 2,000 additional nuclear warheads are currently decommissioned and awaiting dismantlement.
The number of non-strategic nuclear weapons in the United States has been reduced by more than 90% since September 30, 1991.
The last time the United States published such information was in October 2021, after which it did not disclose data on the quantitative composition of the nuclear arsenal.
