Over the weekend, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) revealed how many nukes America is sitting on and how many it dismantled last year in a post on its website.
According to the declassified information, the U.S. had 3,748 nukes in the stockpile as of September 2023. It also said that it had dismantled 69 of the world-ending weapons. This is the first time the U.S. federal government has revealed how many nukes it’s sitting on since October of 2021, when the number was 3,713.
Nuclear tensions are on the rise across the world. Russia, the U.S., and China are working on new and fancier nuclear weapons, North Korea has—by best estimates—around 50 nuclear weapons, and the U.S. has…
