— the U.S. has approximately 1,100 nonstrategic (a.k.a tactical, or short-range) nuclear weapons, according to a new Congressional Research Service report released Tuesday by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. A “few hundred” are deployed with U.S. aircraft in Europe, and the rest are stored in the U.S. “Estimates vary,” the CRS says, “but experts believe Russia still has between 2,000 and 6,000 warheads for nonstrategic nuclear weapons in its arsenal.”
