Discussion Zone: => General Chat => Topic started by: kinjo on May 04, 2010, 02:20:35 PM
Title: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: kinjo on May 04, 2010, 02:20:35 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_nuclear_weapons
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WASHINGTON – The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly. The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran. "We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons. The U.S. has previously regarded such details as top secret. The figure includes both "strategic," or long-range weapons, and those intended for use at shorter range. The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989. A rough count of deployed and reserve warheads has been known for years, so the Pentagon figures do not tell nuclear experts much they don't already know. Hans Kristensen, director of Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said his organization had already put the number at around 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents. The import of the announcement is the precedent it sets, Kristensen said. "The important part is that the U.S. is no longer going to keep other countries in the dark," he said. Clinton said the disclosure of numbers the general public has never seen "builds confidence" that the Obama administration is serious about stopping the spread of atomic weapons and reducing their numbers.
Kinjo Note: scary to think but that would wipe out the planet... humans are so stupid
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: tkoold on May 04, 2010, 02:27:08 PM
yeah ohh well..
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: Flashwerewolf on May 04, 2010, 02:41:46 PM
It would hardly destroy the earth, just really mess it up for us flora and fauna
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: kinjo on May 04, 2010, 03:01:00 PM
i want to live in an under water city Atlantis v2.0
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: Adelaide on May 04, 2010, 05:37:05 PM
Yep that would be pretty messed up o.o stupid nuclear warfare... worst idea ever...
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: Kedzor on May 04, 2010, 05:37:41 PM
i can tell you right now, we have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more then 6k warheads.
Title: Re: US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads
Post by: bloo-apple on May 04, 2010, 09:32:25 PM