US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

[Seneca]

US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

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.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100504/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_nuclear_weapons

[scheming daemons]

1. Kudos to the Obama administration for not hiding the truth....

....unlike their predecessors.

[leeloo]

2. I'll show you mine if you show me yours..I am sure Iran is getting a great laugh out of this..

Kinda reminds me of the apple guys showing Bill Gates how there GUI works..

[BlooInBloo]

3. Saw Clinton's speech today, about coming clean with what we have. Was good.

[doc03]

4. I'm not sure that is enough

:scared:

[provis99]

5. meaning we have at least 60,000 warheads.

Or maybe he's not counting battlefield tactical nukes, or artillery-launched nuclear shells, or nuclear air-dropped cruise missles, or etc...

[doc03]

6. Thanks I feel safer now. Believe it or not a Rethug

I know seriously suggested we "nuke" the oil well in the gulf to stop the leak.:nuke: