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...and Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume 1, 1939/1946 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee: U.S. AEC Technical Information Center, 1972), pp. 723-724; Condensed AEC Annual Financial Report, FY 1953 (in Fifteenth Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission, January 1954, p. 73)
2. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
3. Estimated construction costs for more than 1,000 ICBM launch pads and silos, and support facilities, from 1957-1964: nearly $14,000,000,000
Maj. C.D. Hargreaves, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Construction Office (CEBMCO), "Introduction to the CEBMCO Historical Report and History of the Command Section, Pre-CEBMCO Thru December 1962," p. 8; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ballistic Missile Construction Office, "U.S. Air Force ICBM Construction Program," undated chart (circa 1965)
4. Total number of nuclear bombers built, 1945-present: 4,680
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
5. Peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year: 32,193/1966
Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Weapons Databook Project
6. Total number and types of nuclear warheads and bombs built, 1945-1990: more than 70,000/65 types
U.S. Department of Energy; Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Weapons Databook Project
7. Number currently in the stockpile (2002): 10,600 (7,982 deployed, 2,700 hedge/contingency stockpile)
Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Weapons Databook Project
8. Number of nuclear warheads requested by the Army in 1956 and 1957: 151,000
History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons, July 1945 Through September 1977, Prepared by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy), February 1978, p. 50 (formerly Top...
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