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With more than 1,100 warheads deployed on submarines based out of Naval Base Kitsap; Washington state has the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, exceeded only by Russia and the rest of the United States.

How worried should we be?

Patrick Malone is an investigative reporter with The Seattle Times, and he joined Soundside to talk about the newest warhead in the Navy’s arsenal, the W76-2.

The W76-2 has a destructive force of between five and eight kilotons, or about half the power of the bombs dropped during WW2 on Hiroshima. This “low yield” weapon was designed and approved specifically to counter the smaller “tactical” nuclear weapons that Russia has in their arsenal.