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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

U.S. discloses cache of 5,113 nuke warheads from The Washington Times stories: News by: Eli Lake

U.S. discloses cache of 5,113 nuke warheads from The Washington Times stories: News by: Eli Lake

The U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal contains exactly 5,113 warheads, down from a Cold War high of 31,255, according to numbers that until Monday were among the United States' most closely held secrets. The Pentagon released the exact figures on the U.S. nuclear stockpile as the international conference opened at the United Nations in New York seeking to renew the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. The first day of the meeting included a war of words between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/m...-nuke-warheads/

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