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Russia will dismantle a unit of strategic missiles based in the Urals by next December, in accordance with the 1991 START 1 disarmament accord, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported late Thursday. The unit, based in the Chelyabinsk region, is made up of RS-20 intercontinental ballistic missiles -- which NATO calls SS-18. Military authorities blew up a launching silo of that unit on Thursday, the fifth one to be destroyed since the beginning of this year. Another silo will be blown up by year's end, ITAR-TASS reported, quoting an unidentified defense ministry official. Under the START 1 agreement, which came into force in December 1994, the number of Russian and US missiles cannot exceed 1,600. Russia currently has two divisions equipped with over 80 RS-20 missiles, in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, and in the southern Orenburg region. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceWar Search SpaceWar Subscribe To SpaceWar Express 
Russia Vows To Keep Its Nuclear Superpower Status
Moscow (AFP) Dec 24, 2004Russia will keep pace with the United States in nuclear weapons technology but not in the size of its strategic arsenal, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday according to Interfax news agency. |
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