Here are some facts about the nuclear age provided by the Brookings Institution, a moderate Washington public-policy research organization:

• Total U.S. nuclear weapons built, 1951-present: 67,500.
  
• Peak number of weapons in U.S. stockpile: 32,500 in 1967.
  
• U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11.
  
• Number of U.S. nuclear test blasts in the Pacific: 106.
  
• Number of U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada: 935.
  
• States with most deployed nuclear weapons: Washington and Georgia (1,450 each).
  
• Number of secret Presidential Emergency Facilities built for use during and after a nuclear war: 75.
  
• Number of high-level radioactive waste tanks in Washington, Idaho and South Carolina: 239.
  
• Amount of plutonium still in weapons: 47 tons.
  

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