Let \(C_b(X)\) be the Banach space of all bounded continuous real-valued functions on a completely regular Hausdorff space X and let \(\beta \) denote the natural strict topology on \(C_b(X)\) . Let \(T:C_b(X)\rightarrow C_b(X)\) be a Bochner representable operator, that is, there exist a strictly positive Radon measure \(\mu \) on X and \(g\in L^1(\mu , C_b(X))\) so that \(T(u)=\int _X u(x)g(x)\,d\mu (x)\) for \(u\in C_b(X)\) . It is shown that T is a nuclear operator between the locally convex space \((C_b(X),\beta )\) and the Banach space \(C_b(X)\) and T has a well-defined trace tr \(T=\int _X g(x)(x)\,d\mu (x)\) .