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Accession Number:
AD1031416
Title:
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues
Corporate Author:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC WASHINGTON DC
Report Date:
2017-02-10
Abstract:
Even though the United States is in the process of reducing the number of warheads deployed on its long-range missiles and bombers, consistent with the terms of the New START Treaty, it also plans to develop new delivery systems for deployment over the next 20-30 years. The 115th Congress will continue to review these programs, and the funding requested for them, during the annual authorization and appropriations process. During the Cold War, the U.S. nuclear arsenal contained many types of delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons. The longer-range systems, which included long-range missiles based on U.S. territory, long-range missiles based on submarines, and heavy bombers that could threaten Soviet targets from their bases in the United States, are known as strategic nuclear delivery vehicles. At the end of the Cold War, in 1991, the United States deployed more than 10,000 warheads on these delivery vehicles. That number has declined to less than 1,500 deployed warheads today, and is slated to be 1,550 deployed warheads in 2018, after the New START Treaty completes implementation.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pages:
0051
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
0.98MB
