Original title: the United States announced the number of nuclear warheads again after four years
Xinhua news agency, Washington, October 5 (reporter Liu pinran) - data released by the US government on the 5th showed that by the end of September 2020, the United States had 3750 nuclear warheads. This is the second announcement of the number of nuclear warheads by the United States after four years.
The US State Department's arms control, verification and implementation agency released the US nuclear warhead data list on the same day. According to the data, by the end of fiscal year 2020 on September 30, 2020, the number of U.S. nuclear warheads was 3750, a decrease of 55 over the same period in 2019. These 3750 nuclear warheads include active and stockpiled nuclear warheads, and retired and to be dismantled nuclear warheads are not included in the statistical range.
The United States and Russia are the two countries with the largest number of nuclear warheads in the world. According to statistics released this year by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the American Federation of scientists, the total number of nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia exceeds 90% of the global total.


[editor in charge: Liu Yang]