"Though we have acheived progress, our work is not over. That is why I support the mission of the Arms Control Association. It is, quite simply, the most effective and important organization working in the field today."
U.S. and Soviet/Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
START I was signed July 31, 1991, and entered into force on December 5, 1994. Under the treaty, the five parties—the United States, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine—semi-annually exchange memorandum of understanding (MOU) data providing numbers, types and locations of accountable strategic nuclear weapons. The tables below compare the number of START-accountable deployed warheads declared in the initial September 1990 MOU with data from the January 1999 MOU, demonstrating the progress the parties have made in nuclear force reduction thus far. —For more information, contact Craig Cerniello.
U.S. Strategic Forces:
Warheads by Delivery System1
September 1990 | January 1999 | |||
ICBMs | ||||
MX | 500 | 500 | ||
Minuteman III | 1,500 | 1,950 | ||
Minuteman II | 450 | 1 | ||
Total | 2,450 | 2,451 | ||
SLBMs | ||||
Poseidon (C-3) | 1,920 | 320 | ||
Trident I (C-4) | 3,072 | 1,536 | ||
Trident II (D-5) | 768 | 1,920 | ||
Total | 5,760 | 3,776 | ||
Bombers | ||||
B-52 (ALCM) | 1,968 | 1,572 | ||
B-52 (Non-ALCM) | 290 | 48 | ||
B-1 | 95 | 91 | ||
B-2 | 0 | 20 | ||
Total | 2,353 | 1,731 | ||
<Total Warheads | 10,563 | 7,958 |
Soviet/Russian Strategic Forces:
Warheads by Delivery System1
September 19902 | January 19993 | |||
ICBMs | ||||
SS-11 | 326 | 0 | ||
SS-13 | 40 | 0 | ||
SS-17 | 188 | 0 | ||
SS-18 | 3,080 | 1,800 | ||
SS-19 | 1,800 | 960 | ||
SS-24 (silo) | 560 | 100 | ||
SS-24 (rail) | 330 | 360 | ||
SS-25 | 288 | 360 | ||
SS-27 (silo)4 | — | 10 | ||
SS-27 (road)4 | — | 0 | ||
Total | 6,612 | 3,590 | ||
SLBMs | ||||
SS-N-6 | 192 | 0 | ||
SS-N-8 | 280 | 152 | ||
SS-N-17 | 12 | 0 | ||
SS-N-18 | 672 | 624 | ||
SS-N-20 | 1,200 | 1,200 | ||
SS-N-23 | 448 | 448 | ||
Total | 2,804 | 2,424 | ||
Bombers | ||||
Bear (ALCM) | 672 | 512 | ||
Bear (Non-ALCM) | 63 | 4 | ||
Blackjack | 120 | 48 | ||
Total | 855 | 564 | ||
Total Warheads | 10,271 | 6,578 |
Strategic Forces on Non-Russian Territory1
Belarus | Kazakhstan | Ukraine | |
ICBMs | 0 | 0 | 440 (SS-24) |
SLBMs | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bombers | 0 | 0 | 200 (Bear) 144 (Blackjack) |
Total | 0 | 0 | 784 |
NOTES
1. Warhead attributions are based on START I counting rules. This results in bombers having fewer warheads attributed to them than they actually carry. On the other hand, even though all nuclear warheads from Ukraine have been removed to Russia, they remain START-accountable until the delivery systems have been destroyed.
2. Includes weapons in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
4. Also known as the TOPOL-M or RS-12M Variant 2 ICBM.
Sources: START I Memorandum of Understanding, January 1, 999; ACA.