US has more than 5,000 nuclear warheads
Pentagon said 5,113 warheads were either operationally deployed, kept in active reserve or held in inactive storage. On a fact sheet detailing numbers that had been classified for decades, it said that the arsenal has been reduced by 84% from its max level of 31,225 warheads at the end of 1967.
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US has more than 5,000 nuclear warheads
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