Bombs. Is this accurate?

[xyzzyplugh]

United States has an arsenal of 12,000 warheads each with a range of up to 8,100 miles. Nuclear weapons are located in 14 states. The US has 150 B61 bombs at ten air bases in seven countries in Europe at Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The US is the only country with nuclear weapons deployed outside its borders... Great Britain has an arsenal of 380 with a range of 7,500 miles.

[mikewith]

Looks like you've copied'n'pasted this - or at least copied it -- from somewhere, Xyzzy. Do you trust the source?

[xyzzyplugh]

Yes mikewith it is copied from ABuser Kevin9's response to my previous post 'Bombs just Curious'. No I don't know if it is trustworthy or not; that's why the above Question title says 'Bombs. Is this accurate?' If that's okay with you mikewith?

[mikewith]

Calm down, xyzzyplugh, it was only a question.

[rekstout]

Relatively accurate - the range information is obviously classified and some of those warheads have a far lower range (nuclear artillery shells for instance have a range which is sub 50 miles and what is the range of a bomb???.

The department of defense is obviously not going to make a detailed inventory or technical information available to the general public so one will never get the full and accurate picture - I would say it's as close to the truth as you are likely to get - certainly doesn;t sound outrageous.

[xyzzyplugh]

I quite agree mikewith; tone of voice is difficult to express in text. Maybe a smiley was required? :-)

[map08]

Rekstout (and in light of answers above, I mean no disrespect, I'm only quoting) - "The department of defense is obviously not going to make a detailed inventory or technical information available to the general public so one will never get the full and accurate picture." Ha! Great point! That's exactly what the West has been trying to make Iraq do! But of course, the usual answer is, 'well, Iraq has consistently shown it's willingness to attack other states, and its own people'. But the US? Surely it's ignorant to say that the West has never attempted to attack other states - look at Vietnam, or Panama. Our whole economies are supported on applying our 'market principles' onto fragile foreign states. Look at clothing, for instance - there's not a high street store that doesn't rely on "Made in China/Philippines/Vietnam" tags. I'm not a Marxist or anarchist, but I do think that the whole truth should be viewed; it's very interesting to view the whole states system as an impartial observer...