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U.S., Russia, Reduced Strategic Deployments Over Last Six Months, Latest New START Data Show

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U.S., Russia, Reduced Strategic Deployments Over Last Six Months, Latest New START Data Show
U.S. Air Force airmen from the 576th Flight Test Squadron missile handling team install a cable raceway on an intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 3, 2014. The missile handling team transports and handles ICBMs and performs operational check-out actions of the flight destruct ordnance package on the Minuteman III boosters. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/RELEASED)

The United States and Russia were each deploying fewer strategic nuclear weapons as of March 1 than they did six months earlier, according to the Department of State's latest data on the bilateral New START nuclear treaty. Since the last official State-published tally in September 2019, Russia cut more strategic warheads from its arsenal than the U.S.: 100, compared with three. That left Moscow with 1,326 weapons on deployed long-range missiles and strategic bombers, slightly under Washington's count of 1,373.…

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