Pentagon maintains a stockpile of nearly 150 nuclear bombs at European bases: scientific report
May 1, 2019
F-15E Strike Eagles, assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, taxi in after a sortie in support of Tactical Leadership Programme 16-3 at Los Llanos Air Base, Spain, Sept. 26. Photo by Staff Sgt. Emerson Nuñez
A team of scientists and researchers published a new report about the United States nuclear arsenal in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is among the few reliable statistical sources, which established in 1945 by experts who had created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to warn the public about its dangers.
Their latest report shows that US nuclear arsenal, which remained roughly unchanged in the last year, with the Department of Defense maintaining an estimated stockpile of nearly 3,800 warheads.
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