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Russia
| "START Accountable" [1] |
Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles
|
Strategic Nuclear Warheads
|
|
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)
|
472
|
2,018
|
| Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) |
288
|
1,488
|
| Bombers |
79
|
632
|
| Total |
839
|
4,138
|
Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine [2]
|
"START Accountable" [1]
|
Delivery Vehicles
|
Nuclear Warheads
|
| ICBMs |
0
|
0
|
| SLBMs |
0
|
0
|
| Bombers |
0
|
0
|
| Total |
0
|
0
|
Changes in Former Soviet Strategic Forces Since 1990
|
"START Accountable" [1]
|
Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles
|
Strategic Nuclear Warheads
|
||
|
September 1990
|
July 2008
|
September 1990
|
July 2008
|
|
| ICBMs | ||||
|
SS-11
|
326
|
0
|
326
|
0
|
|
SS-13
|
40
|
0
|
40
|
0
|
|
SS-17
|
47
|
0
|
188
|
0
|
|
SS-18
|
308
|
104
|
3,080
|
1,040
|
|
SS-19
|
300
|
122
|
1,800
|
732
|
|
SS-24 (Silo)
|
56
|
0
|
560
|
0
|
|
SS-24 (Rail)
|
33
|
0
|
330
|
0
|
|
SS-25
|
288
|
192
|
288
|
192
|
|
SS-27 (Silo)
|
0
|
48
|
0
|
48
|
|
SS-27 (Road Mobile)
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
6
|
|
Subtotal
|
1,398
|
472
|
6,612
|
2,018
|
| SLBMs | ||||
|
SS-N-6
|
192
|
0
|
192
|
0
|
|
SS-N-8
|
280
|
0
|
280
|
0
|
|
SS-N-17
|
12
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
|
SS-N-18
|
224
|
96
|
672
|
288
|
|
SS-N-20
|
120
|
60
|
1,200
|
600
|
|
SS-N-23
|
112
|
96
|
448
|
384
|
|
RMS-56
|
0
|
36
|
0
|
216
|
|
Subtotal
|
940
|
288
|
2,804
|
1,488
|
| Bombers | ||||
|
Bear (ALCM)
|
84
|
64
|
672
|
512
|
|
Bear (Non-ALCM)
|
63
|
0
|
63
|
0
|
|
Blackjack
|
15
|
15
|
120
|
120
|
|
Subtotal
|
162
|
79
|
855
|
632
|
|
Total
|
2,500
|
839
|
10,271
|
4,138
|
KEY
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| SLBM | Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile |
| ALCM | Air-Launched Cruise Missile |
1. START I limits the United States and Russia to 6,000 "accountable" warheads each with an implementation deadline of December 2001. Figures are based on START counting rules, as negotiated between the United States and the Soviet Union and specified in the treaty text. Thus, numbers do not necessarily reflect those weapons systems that are operationally deployed.
2. Strategic nuclear weapons were located in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Belarus and Kazakhstan rapidly transferred nuclear warheads back to Russia and transferred or destroyed their associated delivery systems. Ukraine completed the transfer of nuclear warheads back to Russia in 1996 and destroyed its last SS-24 ICBM silo on October 30, 2001.
Sources: START Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of September 1, 1990 and the most recent MOU of July 1, 2008.