This week's Peace Indicator is 77 warheads. That's the number of deployed nuclear warheads removed from the U.S. arsenal between February and May of this year.
The Federation of American Scientists noted back in February that it appeared that the arsenal had dropped below the 2,200 mark (which we were required to do by treaty by 2012). Then in July the State Department confirmed FAS's figures.
2,200 is still a huge number of nuclear warheads, and that doesn't count the ones kept in reserve. Still, progress should be appreciated when it happens.
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