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Under that 2010 treaty, each side is capped at no more than 1,550 accountable strategic nuclear warheads/bombs. The United States presently arms 400 Minuteman III ICBMs with 1 warhead apiece. But starting tomorrow, up to 200 of those missiles could carry 3. Vladimir Putin will also be unconstrained.
A color photograph from July 2020 of four Air Force airmen at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, working to attach three war Mark-12A reentry vehicles containing war reserve W78 335-kiloton thermonuclear warheads to a Minuteman III ICBM “bus” or third stage (index card size pieces of paper taped to the RVs identify them as war reserve weapons rather than, say, inert training versions). To their right, a fourth Mark-12A RV sits upright in a metal stand. The Minuteman III is currently restricted to only one warhead under the New START treaty, but the Air Force routinely practices uploading the ICBMs in case the president decides to increase the number of operational warheads.
February 4, 2026 at 11:34 PM