U.S Nuclear Facts

Reprinted from Colville VFP Newsletter
(Based on information from the Ploughshares Fund.)

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NUCLEAR SIGN The U.S. has approximately 8,000 active nuclear warheads.
NUCLEAR SIGN According to the goals stated in the NPR, from 1,700 - 2,200 "operationally deployed weapons" will be retained by 2012.
NUCLEAR SIGN 7,800 additional intact nuclear warheads would be retained in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
NUCLEAR SIGN The overall military budget request for fiscal year 2003, including nuclear weapons and all other weapons, is $396.1 billion.
NUCLEAR SIGN The U.S. budget is equal to the combined military budgets of the next 24 countries in order of sizes of military budgets.
NUCLEAR SIGN The U.S. military budget is 34 times the combined military budgets of the "axis of evil" countries (Iran, Iraq and North Korea).
NUCLEAR SIGN The U.S. military budget is 3.3 times the combined military budgets of the countries on the NPR list (China, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Russia, North Korea and Syria).
NUCLEAR SIGN The U.S. plans to spend $7.8 billion on missile defense in 2003. In 2007, the budget, as projected for missile defense, will rise to $11.1 billion.