Nuke Numbers

The State Department on Friday released its latest figures on the numbers of strategic offensive nuclear weapons, as required by the START Treaty,  in the U.S. and Russian inventories.

According to a department statement, the United States has 812 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers, while Russia has 494.

As for the warheads on those deployed missiles and bombers, the United States has 1,737 and Russia 1,492.

And as for "deployed and non-deployed launchers of ICBMs, deployed and non-deployed launchers of SLBMs, and deployed and non-deployed heavy bombers," the United States has 1,040 to Russia's 881, according to the statement.