Bush sends nuke cut plan to House

The government has never disclosed how many such weapons it has. Outside experts have estimated that after the Cold War, the US retained about 7,000 strategic warheads, 1,000 smaller warheads intended for tactical battle and 3,000 reserve warheads. Brooks said the proposal represents the largest percentage cut ever in the nation’s nuclear inventory.

Since the ’80s, the US has been taking bombs out of its inventory and disassembling them at a plant in Amarillo, Texas. The US produced an estimated 70,000 nuclear bombs after WW II. —(LAT-WP)