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Dataset

	United States	Soviet Union
1945	6	
1946	11	
1947	32	
1948	110	
1949	235	1
1950	369	5
1951	640	25
1952	1,005	50
1953	1,436	120
1954	2,063	150
1955	3,057	200
1956	4,618	426
1957	6,444	660
1958	9,822	869
1959	15,468	1,060
1960	20,434	1,605
1961	24,111	2,471
1962	27,297	3,322
1963	29,249	4,238
1964	30,751	5,221
1965	31,642	6,129
1966	31,700	7,089
1967	30,893	8,339
1968	28,884	9,399
1969	26,910	10,538
1970	26,119	11,643
1971	26,365	13,092
1972	27,296	14,478
1973	28,335	15,915
1974	28,170	17,385
1975	27,052	19,055
1976	25,956	21,205
1977	25,099	23,044
1978	24,243	25,393
1979	24,107	27,935
1980	23,764	30,062
1981	23,031	32,049
1982	22,937	33,952
1983	23,154	35,804
1984	23,228	37,431
1985	23,135	39,197
1986	23,254	40,723
1987	23,490	38,859
1988	23,077	37,333
1989	22,174	35,805
1990	21,211	33,417
1991	18,306	28,595
1992	13,731	25,155
1993	11,536	21,101
1994	11,012	18,399
1995	10,953	14,978
1996	10,886	12,085
1997	10,829	11,264
1998	10,763	10,764
1999	10,698	10,451
2000	10,615	10,201
2001	10,491	9,126
2002	10,640	8,600
2003	10,388	7,800
2004	10,350	7,200
2005	9,962	5,830

Comments

I suggest less dates be labeled on the x-axis; especially in the small version, it really unbalances the look of it, and they are hard to read. Also, I find wider time units actually more helpful for making sense of such information; it makes me think of the general context of, say, the decade, instead of one specific year.

Another possibility would be to label a few political events that affected the stockpiles. Very useful graph as it is, though.--130.132.146.165 18:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I think the X-axis comment is right on and will change that. I think labeling political events could get complicated, though. --Fastfission 01:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)