Aviation Week has a series of articles about selected nuclear powers, the US, the Russians, French, Indians, and Chinese. Other nuclear countries, the UK, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, are omitted. Interesting selection that. Dunno what it means other than perhaps Aviation Week just doesn't know anything about the non selected countries.
They give numbers for the US. We are down to about 2000 deliverable warheads as of now, and sequestration and budget cutting forecasts a further drop to 1550 by 2018. Which is WAY down from the bad old days when we had 10,000 warheads aimed at the Russians. Minuteman missiles are down to 450, from 1080 when Minuteman was first deployed back in the 1960's. To my amateur eye, the numbers are probably enough to do the job, namely convince everyone in the world that we could reduce their country to a glow-in-the-dark parking lot if they were stupid enough to really piss us off.
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