Meanings of await dismantlement in английском

The Pentagon also declined to disclose the exact number of warheads awaiting dismantlement.

Each side also has thousands of warheads in storage and retired bombs and missiles awaiting dismantlement.

But it does not include "several thousand" warheads that are now retired and awaiting dismantlement, the Pentagon said.

Both are estimated to have over 6,000 deployed, stockpiled or retired (and awaiting dismantlement) nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists.