It should also be noted that the United States has at its disposal 800 deployed and non-deployed nuclear weapon carriers.
According to the Department of State, this information is current as of March 1, 2023.
Of course, the official data does not entirely correspond to the real situation, there are many more nuclear weapons in the United States. According to Hans Christensen, director of the nuclear information program for the Federation of American Scientists, published in May 2022, the Pentagon had 3,708 nuclear warheads deployed operationally and on standby with yields ranging from 5 to 455 kilotons at the start of 2022. To this number must also be added 1,720 decommissioned warheads, which were still waiting to be dismantled at the time. Over the past year, the situation is unlikely to have changed dramatically.
It should be noted that American nuclear weapons are concentrated not only in the United States (at 24 bases in 11 states), but also in a number of European countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. It is assumed that around 150 nuclear warheads are stationed there.
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