The administration of President George W Bush told Congress that many of the warheads, bombs and missiles involved in the president`s promised two-thirds reduction of strategic nuclear forces would be kept in reserve rather than be destroyed, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Assistant Secretary of Defence J D Crouch told lawmakers in a top-secret briefing Tuesday that the administration had not yet determined how many of the roughly 4,000 nuclear warheads and bombs slated for decommissioning under Bush`s plan would be destroyed and how many would be stored and available for redeployment, the paper reported, citing congressional sources.

Last month, Bush announced the United States would reduce its nuclear arsenal from about 6,000 warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 over the next 10 years. Bureau Report