U.S. STOCKPILE DECREASES BY 103 WARHEADS UNDER LATEST TREATY DECLARATION

Over the last six months, the United States has reduced the size of its strategic deployed nuclear stockpile by 103 warheads, while Russia has increased the size of its stockpile, according to the latest New START Treaty data released by the State Department. The April 1 declaration reveals that the U.S. had 1,585 warheads under the treaty’s counting rules March 1, down from the 1,688 warheads it declared six months ago. After hitting a low of 1,400 attributable warheads, Russia’s stockpile increased to 1,512 under the most recent declaration. Both countries must be under the treaty’s 1,550-warhead cap by 2018.