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DTRA Completes Elimination of Russian SS-24 ICBMs

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Friday, April 11th, 2008

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The Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program announced this week it successfully completed the elimination of final SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and supporting system components in Perm, Russia. Delegations from the Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA) and the United States 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 and Richard Lugar in 1992, and implemented by the Defense Threat…

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