Shortly after nuclear weapons sleuths Tom Cochran [2] and Bill Arkin [3] published their unauthorized estimate of the size of the U.S. arsenal in 1984, they got a call from alarmed U.S. officials, according to the Washington Post [4]. "They called us over and wanted to know where we got the numbers," Cochran recalls of a time when almost everything about history's deadliest weapon -- including how many the United States possessed -- was classified secret. (Cochran's work at the Natural Resources Defense Council [5] on nuclear weapons and security has been supported for over twenty years by Ploughshares Fund.)
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1789
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/23
[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/earlywarning/arkinBio.html
[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/05/AR2010050505147.html
[5] http://www.nrdc.org
[6] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/62