The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.
Bases and Facilities with Significant Current or Historical U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions
Compiled by Stephen I. Schwartz
Director, U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project– As of August 2002 –(Bases and facilities with active nuclear weapons, weapons-related and/or naval nuclear propulsion missions are listed in italics)
* denotes presence of currently deployed or stored nuclear weapons
+ denotes presence of currently stored plutonium-239 and/or uranium-235
| Base/Facility (by State/Country) |
Location | Size (in acres) |
| ALABAMA | ||
| Redstone Arsenal | Huntsville | 38,000 |
| ALASKA | ||
| Clear AFS | Anderson | ? |
| Eareckson AS | Shemya Island | 7,200 |
| Eielson AFB | Fairbanks | 63,195 |
| Elmendorf AFB | Anchorage | 13,130 |
| Naval Air Station Adak | Adak Island | 65,000 |
| ARIZONA | ||
| Davis-Monthan AFB | Tucson | 11,000 |
| ARKANSAS | ||
| Ira Eaker AFB | Blytheville | 3,931 |
| Little Rock AFB | Little Rock | 11,373 |
| CALIFORNIA | ||
| NAS Alameda | San Francisco | 2,720 |
| Beale AFB | Marysville | 22,944 |
| Camp Roberts | Paso Robles | ? |
| Castle AFB | Atwater | 3,200 |
| China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division | Ridgecrest | 1,122,177 |
| Concord Naval Weapons Station | Concord | 12,000 |
| Edwards AFB | Edwards | 301,000 |
| Energy Technology Engineering Center | Santa Susana | 2,700 |
| Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center | Monterey | ? |
| Fort Ord | Seaside | ? |
| + Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Livermore | 7,321 |
| Los Angeles Air Force Base | Los Angeles | 239 |
| March ARB | Riverside | 6,846 |
| Mare Island Naval Shipyard | Vallejo | 4,400 |
| Mather AFB | Sacramento | 5,800 |
| NAS Moffett Field | Mountain View | 13 |
| NAS North Island | Coronado | 2,500 |
| Onizuka AFS | Sunnyvale | 20 |
| Point Mugu (Pacific Missile Test Center) | Oxnard | 63,081 |
| Point Loma Naval Weapons Station | San Diego | ? |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Livermore | 413 |
| Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station | Seal Beach | ? |
| Sierra Army Depot | Herlong | ? |
| Travis AFB | Fairfield | 6,258 |
| Vandenberg AFB | Lompoc | 98,400 |
| COLORADO | ||
| Aurora AFB (formerly Buckley ANGB) | Aurora | 3,832 |
| Fort Carson | Colorado Springs | ? |
| Lowry AFB | Denver | ? |
| North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex | Colorado Springs | 451 |
| Peterson AFB | Colorado Springs | 1,277 |
| * Portion of F.E. Warren AFB(138 W62/Minuteman III warheads) | Ft. Collins and Sterling | (Total listed under Wyoming) |
| + Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site | Golden | 6,550 |
| Schriever Air Force Base | Colorado Springs | 3,840 |
| CONNECTICUT | ||
| Groton Naval Submarine Base | New London | 500 |
| + Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory | Windsor | 10.8 |
| FLORIDA | ||
| Cape Canaveral AFS | Cape Canaveral | 15,804 |
| NAS Cecil Field | Jacksonville | 21,000 |
| Eglin AFB | Fort Walton Beach | 463,452(Only 752 acres used for evaluating nuclear base security systems are counted toward the total) |
| NAS Jacksonville | Jacksonville | ? |
| Mayport Naval Station | Mayport | 3,000 |
| Patrick AFB | Cocoa Beach | 2,341 |
| Pinellas Plant | St. Petersburg | 90 |
| GEORGIA | ||
| * Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base/Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic(1,600 W76/Trident I warheads; 400 W88/Trident II warheads; 160 W80-0/Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles) | Kings Bay | 16,000 |
| Robins AFB | Warner Robins | 8,800 |
| HAWAII | ||
| NAS Barbers Point | Oahu | 3,600 |
| Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range Facility | Kauai | 1,925 |
| Hickam AFB | Honolulu | 2,761 |
| (Kahoolawe Island–until 1994, the entire island was off limits to civilians and used for bombardment practice, including simulated nuclear weapons) | Kahoolawe Island | 28,800 |
| Pearl Harbor Naval Station | Oahu | 2,319 |
| Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station | Wahiawa, Oahu | ? |
| West Loch, Pearl Harbor | Oahu | 12,191 |
| IDAHO | ||
| + Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory | Idaho Falls | 571,800 |
| Mountain Home AFB | Mountain Home | 9,112 |
| ILLINOIS | ||
| Argonne National Laboratory | Argonne | 1,704 |
| Rock Island Arsenal | Rock Island | 946 |
| INDIANA | ||
| Grissom ARB | Bunker Hill | 3,000 |
| IOWA | ||
| + Ames Laboratory | Ames | 10 |
| Burlington AEC Plant | Burlington | ? |
| KANSAS | ||
| Forbes Field | Topeka | 193 |
| McConnell AFB | Wichita | 3,113 |
| Schilling AFB | Salina | ? |
| KENTUCKY | ||
| + Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant | Paducah | 3,422 |
| LOUISIANA | ||
| * Barksdale AFB(50 B61-7 gravity bombs; 90 B83 gravity bombs; 300 W80-1/Air-Launched Cruise Missiles; 100 W80-1/Advanced Cruise Missiles) | Bossier City | 22,000 |
| Camp Robinson | North Little Rock | ? |
| MAINE | ||
| NAS Brunswick | Brunswick | 3,221 |
| Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station | Cutler, East Machias | 2,850 |
| Loring AFB | Limestone | 11,165 |
| Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Kittery | 278 |
| Presque Isle AFB | Presque Isle | ? |
| MARYLAND | ||
| Aberdeen Proving Ground | Aberdeen | 79,000 |
| Andrews AFB | Camp Springs | 7,550 |
| Fort Detrick | Frederick | ? |
| Fort Meade (National Security Agency) | Glen Burnie | 650 |
| Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (VLF/LF) | Annapolis | ? |
| Fort Ritchie | Cascade | 630 |
| Patuxent River Naval Air Station | 7,900 | |
| White Oak Naval Surface Weapons Center | White Oak | ? |
| MASSACHUSETTS | ||
| Cape Cod AS | Buzzards Bay | 22 |
| MICHIGAN | ||
| Kincheloe AFB | ? | |
| K.I. Sawyer AFB | Gwinn | 5,202 |
| (ELF transmitter) | Republic | ? |
| Wurtsmith AFB | Oscoda | 5,221 |
| MISSISSIPPI | ||
| Columbus AFB | Columbus | 6,015 |
| MISSOURI | ||
| Destrehan Street Plant | St. Louis | 45 |
| + Kansas City Plant | Kansas City | 136 |
| * Whiteman AFB(200 B61-7 gravity bombs; 50 B61-11 gravity bombs; 300 B83 gravity bombs) | Knob Noster | 4,627 (missile field covered an additional 10,000 sq. miles) |
| MONTANA | ||
| * Malmstrom AFB(150 W62/Minuteman III warheads; 400 W78/Minuteman III warheads) | Great Falls | 4,137 (missile field covers an additional 24,000 sq. miles) |
| NEBRASKA | ||
| Lincoln AFB | Lincoln | ? |
| Offutt AFB (HQ of U.S. Strategic Command) | Omaha | 4,041 |
| * Portion of F.E. Warren AFB(255 W62/Minuteman III warheads) | Kimball | (Total listed under Wyoming) |
| NEVADA | ||
| * Nellis AFB(175 B61-7 gravity bombs; 600 B61-3, -4, -10 gravity bombs; 575 W80-1/Air-Launched Cruise Missiles) | Las Vegas | 11,274 |
| + Nevada Test Site | Mercury | 864,000 |
| Tonopah Test Range | Tonopah | 409,600 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE | ||
| Pease ANG | Portsmouth | 229 |
| NEW JERSEY | ||
| Earle Naval Weapons Station | Colts Neck | 11,000 |
| McGuire AFB | Wrightstown | 3,598 |
| NAS Lakehurst | Lakehurst | 7,400 |
| NEW MEXICO | ||
| Holloman AFB | Alamogordo | 59,000 |
| * Kirtland AFB/Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex(85 B61-7 gravity bombs; 600 B61-3, -4, -10 gravity bombs; 365 W80-1/Air-Launched Cruise Missiles; 450 W56/Minuteman II warheads; 60 W78/Minuteman III warheads; 550 W69/Short-Range Attack Missiles; 400 W84/Ground-Launched Cruise Missile warheads) | Albuquerque | 52,450 |
| * and + Los Alamos National Laboratory | Los Alamos | 27,520 |
| Roswell AFB | Roswell | ? |
| + Sandia National Laboratories | Albuquerque | 7,600 |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | Carlsbad | 10,240 |
| White Sands Missile Range | Alamogordo | 2,000,000 |
| NEW YORK | ||
| + Brookhaven National Laboratory | Upton, Long Island | 5,300 |
| Griffiss AFB | Rome | 3,896 |
| + Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory | Niskayuna and West Milton | 4,070 |
| Niagara Falls Storage Site | Lewiston | 191 |
| Plattsburgh AFB | Plattsburgh | 4,879 |
| Seneca Army Depot | Romulus | ? |
| NORTH CAROLINA | ||
| Seymour Johnson AFB | Goldsboro | 3,233 |
| NORTH DAKOTA | ||
| Cavalier AFS | Concrete | ? |
| * Grand Forks AFB(25 B61-7 gravity bombs; 60 B83 gravity bombs | Emerado | 5,418 (missile field covers an additional 8,500 sq. miles) |
| * Minot AFB(50 B61-7 gravity bombs; 90 B83 gravity bombs; 100 W80-1/Air-Launched Cruise Missiles; 300 W80-1/ Advanced Cruise Missiles; 455 W78/Minuteman III warheads) | Minot | 5,049 (missile field covers an additional 8,500 square miles) |
| OHIO | ||
| Fernald Environmental Management Project | Fernald | 1,050 |
| + Mound Laboratory | Miamisburg | 306 |
| Newark AFB | Newark | 70 |
| + Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant | Piketon | 3,708 |
| RMI Titanium Company Extrusion Plant | Ashtabula | 8.2 |
| Wright-Patterson AFB | Dayton | 8,145 |
| OKLAHOMA | ||
| Altus AFB | Altus | 5,982 |
| Clinton-Sherman AFB | Clinton | ? |
| Tinker AFB | Oklahoma City | 5,001 |
| OREGON | ||
| Kingsley Field | Klamath Falls | 425 |
| PENNSYLVANIA | ||
| Alternate Joint Communications Center (Site “R”) | near Waynesboro (inside Raven Rock Mountain) | 6 |
| + Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory | West Mifflin | 160 |
| RHODE ISLAND | ||
| Newport Naval Base/Naval Undersea Warfare Center | Newport | 1,440 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | ||
| Charleston Naval Base | Charleston | 20,500 |
| + Savannah River Site | Aiken | 198,400 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA | ||
| Ellsworth AFB | Rapid City | 10,632 (missile field covered an additional 18,000 sq. miles) |
| TENNESSEE | ||
| Arnold Engineering Development Center/Arnold AFB | Manchester | 40,118 |
| Holston Army Ammunition Plant | Kingsport | 6,020 |
| + Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. | Erwin | 66 |
| + Oak Ridge Reservation | Oak Ridge | 35,252 |
| TEXAS | ||
| Carswell AFB | Fort Worth | 3,274 |
| Dyess AFB | Abilene | 6,437 |
| Fort Bliss | El Paso | 1,100,000 |
| Goodfellow AFB | San Angelo | 1,137 |
| Kelly AFB | San Antonio | 4,660 |
| * and + Pantex Plant(more than 12,000 plutonium pits, plus up to several hundred weapons awaiting disassembly, including the W69/Short-Range Attack Missile, the W79/8-inch artillery shell, and the B53 gravity bomb) | Amarillo | 16,000 |
| Sheppard AFB | Wichita Falls | 6,100 |
| UTAH | ||
| Dugway Proving Ground | 1,315 | |
| Hill AFB/Utah Test and Training Range | Ogden | 968,774 |
| VIRGINIA | ||
| Communication and Records Center (Federal Reserve) | Mount Pony, Culpeper | 20.45 |
| High Point Special Facility | Mount Weather, Berryville | 4.6 |
| Marine Corps Air Facility | Quantico | ? |
| Langley AFB | Hampton | 3,216 |
| Naval Surface Warfare Center | Dahlgren | 4,320 |
| Newport News Naval Shipyard | Newport News | ? |
| Norfolk Naval Station | Norfolk | 4,553 |
| The Pentagon | Arlington | 34 |
| Portsmouth Naval Shipyard | Portsmouth | 800 |
| Warrenton Training Center (relocation bunker) | Warrenton | ? |
| Yorktown Naval Weapons Station | Yorktown | 12,800 |
| WASHINGTON | ||
| * Bangor Naval Submarine Base/Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific(1,600 W76/Trident I warheads; 160 W80-0/Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles) | Bangor | 7,000 |
| * Fairchild AFB(25 B61-7 gravity bombs; 60 B83 gravity bombs) | Airway Heights (Spokane) | 4,543 |
| + Hanford Reservation | Richland | 360,000 |
| Larson AFB | Moses Lake | ? |
| Naval Radio Station (VLF transmitter) | Jim Creek, Oso | ? |
| Keyport Naval Undersea Warfare Center | Keyport | ? |
| Naval Station Everett | Everett | ? |
| Puget Sound Naval Shipyard | Bremerton | ? |
| WEST VIRGINIA | ||
| Greenbrier resort (site of a former congressional emergency relocation bunker) | White Sulphur Springs | 2.6 |
| WISCONSIN | ||
| (ELF transmitter) | Clam Lake | ? |
| General Mitchell ANG Base | Milwaukee | 111 |
| WYOMING | ||
| * F.E. Warren AFB(67 W62/Minuteman III warheads; 525 W87/MX [Peacekeeper] warheads) | Cheyenne | 5,866 (missile field covers an additional 12,600 sq. miles) |
| OVERSEAS BASES/FACILITIES | ||
| AUSTRALIA | ||
| Naval Communications Station Harold E. Holt (VLF transmitter) | Exmouth, North West Cape | ? |
| Pine Gap (“Joint Defence Space Research Facility”) | Alice Springs, Northern Territory | ? |
| Woomera AS | Nurrungar, South Australia | 8 |
| BAHAMAS | ||
| Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) | Andros Island | ? |
| BELGIUM | ||
| Florennes AB | Florennes | ? |
| * Kleine Brogel AB(10 B61 gravity bombs) | Meeuen | 1,100 |
| CANADA | ||
| CFB Comox | Lazo, British Columbia | ? |
| DIEGO GARCIA | ||
| Naval Support Facility | Indian Ocean | 6,720 |
| GERMANY | ||
| Army Special Forces Det. (Airborne) Europe | Bad Toelz | ? |
| Eyedelstadt Kaserne (41st Air Defense Artillery Det.) | Barnstorf/Diepholz | ? |
| Smith Barracks | Baumholder | ? |
| * Büechel AB(10 B61 gravity bombs) | Cochem | ? |
| Stockersbusch Kaserne (HQ, 5th U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Group/27th Ordnance Company) | Bueren | ? |
| Giessen Army Depot/River Barracks | Giessen | ? |
| Security Site Training Facility | Hohenfels | ? |
| Kriegsfeld Ordnance Depot (“North Point”) | Kriegsfeld-Gerbach | ? |
| Lechfeld AB | Lechfeld | ? |
| Miesau Army Depot | Miesau | 2,500 |
| Memmingen AB | Memmingen | ? |
| Mutlangen Training Area | Mutlangen | ? |
| Nelson Barracks | Neu UIm | ? |
| Norvenich AB | Düren | ? |
| Husterhoeh Kaserne (HQ, 59th Ordnance Brigade) | Pirmasens | ? |
| * Ramstein AB (U.S. base)(15 B61 gravity bombs) | Ramstein | 10,261 |
| Ritter von Leeb Kaserne (24th Field Artillery Det.) | Landsberg am Lech | ? |
| * Spangdahlem AB(20 B61 gravity bombs) | Trier | 1,282 |
| Patch Barracks | Stuttgart-Vaihingen | ? |
| Kapaun AS | Vogelweh | ? |
| GREECE | ||
| Araxos AB | Araxos | ? |
| Hellenikon AB/Athens International Airport | Athens | 172 |
| HQ, 558th U.S. Army Artillery Group | Eleusis | ? |
| GREENLAND | ||
| Thule AB | Thule | 2,600 |
| GUAM | ||
| Andersen AFB | Yigo | 20,504 |
| Apra Harbor Naval Station | Apra Harbor | ? |
| NAS Agana | Agana | ? |
| Santa Rita Naval Magazine | Santa Rita | ? |
| ITALY | ||
| * Aviano AB (U.S. base)(20 B61 gravity bombs) | Aviano | 1,467 |
| Comiso AS | Sicily | 379 |
| * Ghedi-Torre AB(10 B61 gravity bombs) | Brescia | ? |
| La Maddalena (Submarine Refit and Training Group) | Sardinia | ? |
| “Site Pluto” (main nuclear weapons storage site for U.S. Army units in Italy) | Longare | ? |
| Rimini AB | Rimini | ? |
| JAPAN | ||
| Henoko (Nuclear Ordnance Platoon) | Okinawa | ? |
| Kadena AB | Okinawa | 15,000 |
| Misawa AB | Misawa | 5,700 |
| Yokota AB | Honshu | 1,750 |
| (VLF/LF transmitter) | Yosami, Honshu | ? |
| JOHNSTON ISLAND | ||
| Former atmospheric nuclear testing site and Safeguard C stand-by testing site | North Pacific Ocean | ? |
| KWAJALEIN ATOLL | ||
| Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (formerly the Kwajalein Missile Range) | Marshall Islands | 707,830 |
| NETHERLANDS | ||
| Johannes Post Kaserne (8th Field Army Det.) | Havelteberg | ? |
| * Volkel AB(10 B61 gravity bombs) | Uden | ? |
| PHILIPPINES | ||
| Clark AB | Luzon | 9,285 |
| NAS Cubi Point | Luzon | ? |
| Subic Bay Naval Base | Luzon | 62,000 |
| PUERTO RICO | ||
| Roosevelt Roads Naval Station | Roosevelt Roads | 31,000 |
| SOUTH KOREA | ||
| Camp Ames | Taejon | ? |
| Camp Casey | Tongduchon | ? |
| Camp Essayons | Uijongbu | ? |
| Camp Page | Chunchon | ? |
| Camp Stanley | Uijongbu | ? |
| Former HQ, 833rd Ordnance Company and nuclear weapons storage site | Hwedok | ? |
| Kunsan AB | Kunsan | 2,174 |
| Osan AB | Osan | 1,674 |
| SPAIN | ||
| Moron AB | Moron | ? |
| Rota Naval Station | Cadiz | 6,000 |
| Torrejon AB | Torrejon | 3,206 |
| Zaragoza AB | Zaragoza | ? |
| TURKEY | ||
| Balikesir AB | Balikesir | ? |
| Cakmakli (HQ, 528th U.S. Army Artillery Group) | ? | |
| Malatya AB | Erhac | ? |
| 27th Field Artillery Det. (formerly the closest nuclear weapons storage site to the Soviet Union) | Erzurum | ? |
| Eskisehir AB | Eskisehir | ? |
| * Inçirlik AB (U.S. base)(15 B61 gravity bombs) | Adana | 3,400 |
| Murted AB | Murted | ? |
| UNITED KINGDOM | ||
| RAF Alconbury | Huntingdon | 2,954 |
| RAF Brize Norton | Brize Norton | ? |
| RAF Driffield | Yorkshire | ? |
| RAF Fairford | Gloucestershire | 1,170 |
| RAF Feltwell | Norfolk | ? |
| RAF Fylingdales Moor | Yorkshire | ? |
| RAF Greenham Common | Greenham Common | 1,005 |
| RAF Hemswell | Lincolnshire | ? |
| Holy Loch (former Fleet Ballistic Missile Refit Site 1/Submarine Squadron 14) | Firth of Clyde, Scotland | ? |
| * RAF Lakenheath (U.S. base)(30 B61 gravity bombs) | Suffolk | 2,226 |
| Naval Aviation Weapons Facility Det. (nuclear depth bomb storage) | Machrihanish | ? |
| RAF Marham | Marham | ? |
| RAF Mildenhall | Suffolk | 1,144 |
| RAF Molesworth | Cambridgeshire | ? |
| Naval Aviation Weapons Facility Det. (nuclear depth bomb storage) | St. Mawgan | ? |
| RAF N. Luffenham | Leicestershire | ? |
| RAF Upper Heyford | Oxfordshire | 1,221 |
| Total known acres | 10,018,628.7 | |
| Total known square miles | 15,654 | |
| Total area (In square miles) of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey | 15,357 | |
| Glossary | |
| AB | Air Base |
| AEC | Atomic Energy Commission |
| AFB | Air Force Base |
| AFS | Air Force Station |
| ANG | Air National Guard |
| ANGB | Air National Guard Base |
| ARB | Air Reserve Base |
| AS | Air Station |
| CFB | Canadian Forces Base |
| ELF | Extremely Low Frequency |
| LF | Low Frequency |
| NAS | Naval Air Station |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| VLF | Very Low Frequency |
Sources:
William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, and Joshua Handler, Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments 1998(Washington, D.C.: Natural Resources Defense Council, March 1998); William M. Arkin, Richard W. Fieldhouse, Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1985); Thomas B. Cochran, William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, Milton M. Hoenig, U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production, Volume II, Nuclear Weapons Databook (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987); Thomas B. Cochran, William M. Arkin, Robert S. Norris, Milton M. Hoenig, U.S. Nuclear Warhead Facility Profiles, Volume III, Nuclear Weapons Databook(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987); U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Navy; Air Force Magazine; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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