The Russian Federation sharply cut its number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads over the past six months, putting the nuclear power within 11 warheads of meeting its disarmament obligations under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the U.S. State Department said Monday.
The bilateral treaty, known as New START, requires the U.S. and Russia to cap deployed long-range warheads and delivery mechanisms at certain levels by February 2018. The treaty limits are: 700 deployed intercontinental- and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers; 1,550 fielded strategic warheads; and 800 deployed and nondeployed long-range launchers.
The State Department’s latest progress report, based on data current as of Sept. 1, showed Moscow with 1,561 deployed warheads: the only category in which Russia still exceeds New START limits. The U.S. is already within the treaty limits.
Here are the latest counts for each signatory, plus a comparison with the New START caps:
| US (09/01/2017) | Russia (09/01/2017) | Target | US vs Target (09/01/2017) | Russia vs Target (09/01/2017) | ||
| Deployed ICBMs, Deployed SLBMs, and Deployed Heavy Bombers | 660 | 501 | 700 | -40 | -199 | |
| US (09/01/2017) | Russia (09/01/2017) | Target | US vs Target (09/01/2017) | Russia vs Target (09/01/2017) | ||
| Warheads on Deployed ICBMs, on Deployed SLBMs, and Nuclear Warheads Counted for Deployed Heavy Bombers | 1393 | 1,561 | 1,550 | -157 | 11 | |
| US (09/01/2017) | Russia (09/01/2017) | Target | US vs Target (09/01/2017) | Russia vs Target (09/01/2017) | ||
| Deployed and Non-deployed Launchers of ICBMs, Deployed and Non-deployed Launchers of SLBMs, and Deployed and Non-deployed Heavy Bombers | 800 | 790 | 800 | 0 | -10 |
