The United States is accelerating efforts to dismantle its nuclear weapons while bringing the overall U.S. nuclear stockpile down dramatically.

Under the Moscow Treaty between the United States and Russia, the United States agreed to reduce the size of its operationally deployed strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,700 to 2,200 by 2012.  In addition to this treaty, President Bush directed in 2004 that the size of the overall nuclear weapons stockpile (both reserve and operationally deployed) be reduced nearly 50 percent from the time he entered office by 2012.  That goal was met five years early, so he further directed that the stockpile be reduced almost 15 percent more by 2012.  Currently, the stockpile is the smallest it has been since the Eisenhower administration.

NNSA will also continue to play a leading role in reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism around the world.  NNSA officials have briefed different U.N.-sponsored bodies on the U.S. record of compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and other U.S. efforts to advance nonproliferation.  These efforts include the 50 percent reduction in the U.S. nuclear arsenal since 2001, dismantling greater numbers of nuclear weapons, NNSA's plans to shrink the nuclear weapons complex, and cooperation with over 100 nations in nuclear nonproliferation and threat reduction work.

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