Would Russia Actually Launch Nuclear Weapons?
Considering that the treaty entered into force in February 2011, the biannual aggregate data show the United States has reduce a total of 324 strategic launchers, 217 deployed launchers, and 411 deployed strategic warheads from its inventory . The warhead reduction represents roughly 11 percent of the three,708 warheads remaining in the US stockpile, and about eight percent of the total US arsenal of five,428 stockpiled and retired warheads awaiting dismantlement. The 2018 Nuclear Posture Assessment States that the United…