By Amanda Waldron
SFRC: Bipartisan opposition against new sanctions on Iran
FACTSHEET: US nuclear weapons total inventory more than 7,000
Proponents of nuclear weapons tend to downplay the number of nuclear weapons the United States possesses to forward their ‘we don’t have nukes to spare’ agenda. While it is true that according to the parameters of the New START treaty the US has 1,642 deployed nuclear warheads, this figure does not take into consideration the thousands of other nuclear weapons in our stockpile or awaiting dismantlement.