Deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Europe reached its zenith at 10,000 warheads in 1970
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I got curious about the original source of this and it seems like there is a lot of uncertainty in that numberpic.twitter.com/IIj0i1ks2N
some more context... I haven't looked up the Congressional testimony referenced (maybe will when I get back from being on the road)pic.twitter.com/mTzJUUYk9C
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In a late 2004 "Nuclear Notebook" in
@BulletinAtomic, Stan Norris and@nukestrat wrote, "In 1971, the number of U.S. nuclear warheads based in Europe peaked at approximately 7,300 ... . By the late 1970s, this number had dropped to about 6,000." 1/2pic.twitter.com/vKpsGW0HwT
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yeah, that's what I would have guessed — that the graph would have been smoother than the original one (the 10,000 looked like an outlier)
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