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DTRA Completes Elimination of Russian SS-24 ICBMs

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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The Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program said last week it successfully completed the elimination of the final SS-24 ICBM and supporting system components in Perm, Russia. Delegations from the Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA) and the U.S. Embassy and Department of Defense commemorated the event today by witnessing the final CTR cuts to the last SS-24 ICBM elements. Initiated by U.S. Senators Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Richard Lugar in 1992 (R-Ind.), and implemented by the Defense Threat Reduction…

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