Soviets Destroy Last Short-Range Missile Under Ban
The Soviet Union on Friday destroyed the 957th and last of its shorter-range nuclear missiles in keeping with a superpower treaty banning them, the official Tass news agency announced.
Tass said the missile, known in the West as an SS-23, was destroyed at the Saryozek test range in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. It said U.S. inspectors were present.
The missile, with a range of 310 miles, was put into service in the early 1980s, Tass said. It was banned by a treaty signed in December, 1987, in Washington.
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