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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Nunn-Lugar Program Eliminates Nine More Nuclear-Capable Missiles
The U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction program eliminated eight submarine-launched ballistic missiles and one land-based ICBM last month, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) announced yesterday (see GSN, June 26).
The SS-N-23 missiles were used to arm Soviet Delta IV-class submarines during the Cold War.
Each weapon was designed to carry as many as 10 independently targeted warheads, but the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty prohibits the deployment of more than four warheads on one of the missiles.
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