US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

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WASHINGTON – The United States has 5,113 atomic warheads in its stockpile and "different thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a mum arsenal born in the Cool War and now shrinking rapidly.

The Obama administration disclosed the scope of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a action to around b be socially active other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to redeem its bargaining position against the hopes of a nuclear Iran.

"We think it is in our nationalist guaranty interest to be as transparent as we can be about the atomic program of the Communal States," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a discussion on containing the spread of atomic weapons.

The U.S. has hitherto regarded such details as exceed secret.

The statue includes both "key," or long-range weapons, and those intended suitable misuse at shorter range.

The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.

A uncouth quantify of deployed and reserve warheads has been known for years, so the Pentagon figures do not broadcast atomic experts much they don't already know.

Hans Kristensen, administrator of Nuclear Advice Work, Society of American Scientists in Washington, said his organizing had already make something the add up at everywhere 5,100 close reviewing budget estimates and other documents.
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