After 4 years of censorship, the United States reports how many nuclear weapons it has

The State Department of USA published on Tuesday, for the first time in four years, the number of nuclear warheads that the country stores, after the former president Donald Trump censored the data.

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As of September 30, 2020, the United States Army had 3,750 active and inactive nuclear warheads, 55 fewer than the previous year and 72 fewer than on the same date in 2017.

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The figure was also the lowest since America’s nuclear arsenal peaked at the height of the Cold War with Russia in 1967, when there were a total of 31,255 warheads.

The inventory was released Tuesday amid an effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to restart gun control talks with Russia after they stalled under Trump.

“Increasing the transparency of states’ nuclear reserves is important to non-proliferation and disarmament efforts,” the State Department said in a statement.

Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia, also left another crucial pact, the New Beginning Treaty, frozen last year before its expiration, scheduled for 5 February.

The New Beginning limits the number of nuclear warheads held by Washington and Moscow, and allowing it to expire could have caused a reversal of warhead reductions by both countries.

Trump said he wanted a new deal that included China, which only has a fraction of the warheads that the United States and Russia have.

Biden, who took office on January 20, immediately proposed a five-year extension to New Beginning, which Russian President Vladimir Putin quickly agreed to.

The agreement limits to 1,550 the number of nuclear warheads that can be deployed by Moscow and Washington.

Last week, Russian and US diplomats held closed-door talks in Geneva to begin discussing a successor New Start treaty and also conventional arms controls.

A US official called the talks “productive,” but both sides said just having them was positive.

According to a January 2021 count from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which includes retired warheads (not counted in the State Department figures, the United States had 5,550 warheads, compared with 6,255 for Russia, 350 for China, 225 from Great Britain and 290 from France.

India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea together have around 460 nuclear warheads, according to the institute.

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