Despite the U.S. military having no nuclear-armed bombers on ready alert anymore, the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty still provides a fairly rigorous inspection regime for those aircraft, according to the U.S. official who headed the negotiations for the treaty. New START allows each country to have 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads, with each deployed, nuclear-capable heavy bomber counting as one warhead toward that limit. Under the treaty, each heavy bomber would be assigned a unique identification number that would be...
