The U.S. Maintains 150 To 200 Tactical Nuclear Warheads In Europe

The U.S. stores an estimated 200 B-61 thermonuclear gravity bombs in five European countries. SSGT Phil Schmitten / DoD

Tactical Nukes in Europe a "Tiny Fraction" of Cold War Arsenal, Report Says -- Global Security Newswire

The United States maintains between 150 and 200 B-61 gravity bombs at bases in Europe, a "tiny fraction" of its top deployment of 7,300 tactical nuclear weapons on the continent in 1971, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported in its newest edition (see GSN, Dec. 2, 2010).

"The current level represents a tiny fraction of the 1971 peak of 7,300 U.S. tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe. Since then (with the exception of a period in the mid-1980s), the Europe-based arsenal has been shrinking. The most dramatic reductions occurred in 1986-87, when the United States withdrew nearly 2,000 weapons from European soil," wrote analysts Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen.

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