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How many atomic bombs were made in the US in all?
A total of more than 70,000 nuclear weapons of various types were made, many of these were recycled to make newer models.At the peak of the cold war the US nuclear stockpile had 10,000 high yield strategic nuclear weapons and 40,000 medium and low yield tactical nuclear weapons.
How do you prevent other countries from intervening in your country?
Stockpile a massive nuclear arsenal. That seems to have worked for us.
Was America overreacting when they began nuclear attack awareness?
I do not believe we can know this until the USSR's archives are fully opened to historians, that will probably not happen for some time. However that said it is known that the US nuclear stockpile was significantly larger than the USSR nuclear stockpile until the late 1970s (this was not known by the US at the time) and the US ICBMs have been and still are more accurate than the USSR ICBMs.
When did the US stop making nuclear bombs?
The US has not stopped. There was a pause following the signing of the START treaty to allow stockpile reductions, but the US is now beginning a cycle of replacement of everything still in the stockpile with brand new designs of nuclear weapons. The stockpile size will continue to reduce to meet the START limits, but eventually this will all be newly made and the old ones fully retired.
Is killing everyone possible?
not really. even the largest extinction event, at the end of the Permian which had millions of times the destructive force of the entire world nuclear weapon stockpile at its peak, left about 5% of living things undisturbed.
How many nuclear weapon does the UK?
The UK is estimated to have a stockpile of approximately 160 active nuclear warheads and 225 nuclear warheads in total.
Which country does NOT have a stockpile of operational nuclear weapons?
I don't think Liechtenstein has any.
How many nuclear warheads did the Soviets build?
all together over the years, somewhere around 100,000. however most of these were recycled to make improved weapons. at the peak of the cold war the soviet stockpile contained over 30,000 nuclear weapons, about 10,000 of these were high yield strategic weapons.
How many nuclear weapons did the US have in 1956?
I believe that is still classified Top Secret-Q Restricted Data. The most current data on the US stockpile that is not classified is from 1946, following Operation Crossroads (where we detonated 2 stockpile devices for effects tests at Bikini atoll) the US had a grand total of 4 fission bombs remaining in stockpile. I am still looking to find additional data, if I can't I may have to file a FOIA or MDR request.
Why arm race?
As each side's intelligence agencies could not accurately estimate the stockpile and ability to expand the enemy stockpile was always overestimated, forcing decision makers into continuing to expand their stockpile. This applies to conventional weapons as well as nuclear.
What type of nuclear warheads do the United States still possess How many mega-tons are they?
All US nuclear warheads at this time are miniaturized fusion bombs. None have yields of 1MTon or more. Most are between 300KTons and 600KTons. Exact size of stockpile is classified, but assuming (based on START limits) its about 5000 bombs of about 500KTon each, the US stockpile totals roughly 2,500MTons.I hope somewhere in there is the answer to your question.
Did the cold war lead US and USSR to stockpile nuclear weapons?
No, the US began stockpiling immediately after the end of WW2, by the end of Operation Crossroads in the summer of 1946 the US stockpile consisted of 5 Fatman type MK-III bombs.The USSR began stockpiling immediately after their first test in 1949.The cold war is considered to have begun in 1947.
