- Cost of the Manhattan Project (through August 1945): $20,000,000,000
- Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500
- Estimated construction costs for more than 1,000 ICBM launch pads and silos, and support facilities, from 1957-1964: nearly $14,000,000,000
- Total number of nuclear bombers built, 1945-present: 4,680
- Peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year: 32,193/1966
- Total number and types of nuclear warheads and bombs built, 1945-1990: more than 70,000/65 types
- Number currently in the stockpile (2002): 10,600 (7,982 deployed, 2,700 hedge/contingency stockpile)
- Number of nuclear warheads requested by the Army in 1956 and 1957: 151,000
- Projected operational U.S. strategic nuclear warheads and bombs after full enactment of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty in 2012: 1,700-2,200
- Additional strategic and non-strategic warheads not limited by the treaty that the U.S. military wants to retain as a "hedge" against unforeseen future threats: 4,900
- Largest and smallest nuclear bombs ever deployed: B17/B24 (~42,000 lbs., 10-15 megatons); W54 (51 lbs., .01 kilotons, .02 kilotons-1 kiloton)
- Peak number of operating domestic uranium mines (1955): 925
- Fissile material produced: 104 metric tons of plutonium and 994 metric tons of highly-enriched uranium
- Amount of plutonium still in weapons: 43 metric tons
- Number of thermometers which could be filled with mercury used to produce lithium-6 at the Oak Ridge Reservation: 11 billion
- Number of dismantled plutonium "pits" stored at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas: 12,067 (as of May 6, 1999)
- States with the largest number of nuclear weapons (in 1999): New Mexico (2,450), Georgia (2,000), Washington (1,685), Nevada (1,350), and North Dakota (1,140)
- Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and facilities: 15,654 square miles
- Total land area of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey: 15,357 square miles
- Legal fees paid by the Department of Energy to fight lawsuits from workers and private citizens concerning nuclear weapons production and testing activities, from October 1990 through March 1995: $97,000,000
- Money paid by the State Department to Japan following fallout from the 1954 "Bravo" test: $15,300,000
- Money and non-monetary compensation paid by the the United States to Marshallese Islanders since 1956 to redress damages from nuclear testing: at least $759,000,000
- Money paid to U.S. citizens under the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act of 1990, as of January 13, 1998: approximately $225,000,000 (6,336 claims approved; 3,156 denied)
- Total cost of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, 1946-1961: $7,000,000,000
- Total number of nuclear-powered aircraft and airplane hangars built: 0 and 1
- Number of secret Presidential Emergency Facilities built for use during and after a nuclear war: more than 75
- Currency stored until 1988 by the Federal Reserve at its Mount Pony facility for use after a nuclear war: more than $2,000,000,000
- Amount of silver in tons once used at the Oak Ridge, TN, Y-12 Plant for electrical magnet coils: 14,700
- Total number of U.S. nuclear weapons tests, 1945-1992: 1,030 (1,125 nuclear devices detonated; 24 additional joint tests with Great Britain)
- First and last test: July 16, 1945 ("Trinity") and September 23, 1992 ("Divider")
- Estimated amount spent between October 1, 1992 and October 1, 1995 on nuclear testing activities: $1,200,000,000 (0 tests)
- Cost of 1946 Operation Crossroads weapons tests ("Able" and "Baker") at Bikini Atoll: $1,300,000,000
- Largest U.S. explosion/date: 15 Megatons/March 1, 1954 ("Bravo")
- Number of islands in Enewetak atoll vaporized by the November 1, 1952 "Mike" H-bomb test: 1
- Number of nuclear tests in the Pacific: 106
- Number of U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada: 911
- Number of nuclear weapons tests in Alaska [1, 2, and 3], Colorado [1 and 2], Mississippi and New Mexico [1, 2 and 3]: 10
- Operational naval nuclear propulsion reactors vs. operational commercial power reactors (in 1999): 129 vs. 108
- Number of attack (SSN) and ballistic missile (SSBN) submarines (2002): 53 SSNs and 18 SSBNs
- Number of high level radioactive waste tanks in Washington, Idaho and South Carolina: 239
- Volume in cubic meters of radioactive waste resulting from weapons activities: 104,000,000
- Number of designated targets for U.S. weapons in the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1976, 1986, and 1995: 25,000 (1976), 16,000 (1986) and 2,500 (1995)
- Cost of January 17, 1966 nuclear weapons accident over Palomares, Spain (including two lost planes, an extended search and recovery effort, waste disposal in the U.S. and settlement claims): $182,000,000
- Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11
- Number of Department of Energy federal employees (in 1996): 18,608
- Number of Department of Energy contractor employees (in 1996): 109,242
- Minimum number of classified pages estimated to be in the Department of Energy's possession (1995): 280 million
- Ballistic missile defense spending in 1965 vs. 1995: $2,200,000,000 vs. $2,600,000,000
- Average cost per warhead to the U.S. to help Kazakhstan dismantle 104 SS-18 ICBMs carrying more than 1,000 warheads: $70,000
- Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs: $35,100,000,000