Over the past two decades, the United States has slashed the number of nuclear weapons in its arsenal by 75 percent, from slightly more than 22,000 down to just above 5,000, according to figures declassified by the Defense and Energy departments today. The total of 5,113 nuclear weapons that currently make up the U.S. arsenal represents an 84 percent reduction from the 22,217 active and inactive nuclear warheads that had been in the stockpile since 1989, a senior Defense Department...
