SS-20 missiles blown up
NZPA-Reuter Kapustin Yar Soviet Union The Soviet Union has begun the wholesale scrapping of its SS-20 missiles, blowing up three of them under the terms of the super-Power Inter-mediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The Soviet Army used 625 kg of dynamite yesterday to blow up the SS-20s — with their warheads removed in advance — in a huge fireball on a muddy military range in south Russia. The event, watched by
American military inspectors, marked the beginning of the end of the Kremlin’s potent arsenal of SS-20s, most of which had been aimed at targets in Western Europe. Ten American inspectors who watched yesterday’s explosion from a safe six kilometres away said they were satisfied it had been handled properly. “The explosion was quite spectacular,” Briga-dier-General Roland Lajoie, head of the United States on-site inspection agency, told Reuters.
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Press, 30 August 1988, Page 10
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