Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Russia lashes out after Biden calls Putin a killer" video.
-
4
-
3
-
3
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
@halo1561 I went and looked it up and the answer is not easy because WE DO NOT KNOW how many warheads Russia has -- all we have are guesses. But I did find this:
"Since 1945, the US has manufactured over 70,000 nuclear warheads, which is more than all other nuclear weapon states combined"
"IT IS THOUGHT that, between 1949 and 1991, the Soviet Union manufactured approximately 55,000 nuclear warheads"
*****************
"The US was in possession of 6,450 nuclear warheads in 2018."
"In 2018, Russia was in possession of ROUGHLY 6,850 nuclear warheads."
*****************
Not sure I believe any of this -- where would 70,000 warheads vanish to?
1
-
@halo1561 This is from the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" volume 69, issue 5:
"Of the more than 66,500 warheads that the United States has produced since 1945, almost 59,000 have been disassembled, more than 13,000 of these since 1990. The United States has retained nearly 20,000 plutonium cores (pits) from the warheads it dismantled, storing them in igloos at the Pantex Plant in Texas. The United States also stores some 5,000 canned subassemblies (secondaries from thermonuclear warheads) at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee."
1
-
@halo1561 Not according to the atomic scientists. The Atomic Scientists say Russia is struggling to keep up with the U.S.
"Russia has released very little information about the size of its stockpile, but based on statements from Russian officials and US assessments, we estimate that Russia currently has approximately 8,500 intact warheads. Of these, about 4,480 are in the military stockpile, with the remaining 4,000 retired warheads awaiting dismantlement. We estimate that since 1949, the Soviet Union and Russia have produced some 55,000 nuclear warheads.
Russia is in the middle of a major transformation of its nuclear posture involving the phasing out of Soviet-era missiles and submarines and the deployment of newer, but fewer, weapons to replace them. To keep some degree of parity with the LARGER U.S. MISSILE FORCE, Russia is deploying more warheads on each of its missiles."
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1