The Obama Administration is considering a range of options to further reduce the size of the nation’s strategic deployed stockpile, potentially moving to a stockpile at or below 1,000 weapons, according to the Associated Press. Citing an anonymous former government official and a congressional staffer, the AP said that the Administration is examining cuts that would bring the size of the stockpile down to between 1,000-1,100, 700-800, or 300-400. The New START Treaty caps the strategic deployed stockpiles of both the U.S. and Russia at 1,550. The report noted that no decision had been made and that the options had not been presented to senior decisionmakers. The Pentagon’s current deterrence review began last year and examined the nation’s nuclear deterrence requirements and whether the nation could further reduce the size of its nuclear arsenal. The full story is available here.
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