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Russia:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Moscow to Destroy RS-20 ICBM Silo todayFrom Tuesday, July 8, 2003 issue.
Russia is expected today to destroy a RS-20 ICBM silo in the Chelyabinsk region, according to ITAR-Tass (see GSN, May 19).
The silo is being destroyed under the auspices of START, the 1991 strategic arms treaty that restricts the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 6,000 strategic nuclear warheads, according to ITAR-Tass. Under the treaty, the destroyed silo will remain open to U.S. technical observation for 90 days (Vladislav Kuznetsov, ITAR-Tass, July 8).
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