Major League Benefits. The Major League Baseball regular season includes 162 games from April through September, but umpires also work spring training games in February and March. Umpiresâ annual salaries do not include the postseason games in October, which can net umpires an extra $20,000.
(How many does the U.S. have? According to the most authoritative account, by Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, the U.S. deploys about 2,150 nuclear weapons on aircraft, and land-based and submarine-based missiles. It has an additional estimated 2,500 weapons in reserve storage, for a total arsenal of about 4,650.
To Find America's Nuclear Missiles, Try Google Maps. Earlier this week, NPR ran a short series I did on America's land-based nuclear missiles. One diagram in particular raised a few eyebrows: It showed the location of a Missile Alert Facility, along with the silos for 10 nuclear weapons.