Class blog for "The Unstable Nucleus" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Monday, May 3, 2010

5,113

That's the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal.  Disclosed to the public for the first time (ever, as far as I know!).  Obama hopes that this transparency will help build confidence in the U.S. disarmament agenda.

Oh, and, the largest arsenal we've had:  31,225 nuclear warheads in 1967.

For more:  Reuters update on the NPT discussions

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