Deployed is not inventory. 1500 warheads ready to go. The rest cannot be flushed in an initial nuclear exchange. It's also a little complex in terms of the cou

Deployed is not inventory. 1500 warheads ready to go. The rest cannot be flushed in an initial nuclear exchange. It's also a little complex in terms of the count. Bombers count as one independent of how many warheads they carry (the US has non-trivial nuclear bomber forces)