Soviets Destroy Last of SS-20 Nuclear Missiles
The Soviet Union destroyed its last SS-20 medium-range nuclear missile Sunday, ending a three-year process set in motion by an arms reduction pact with the United States.
“The last Soviet RSD-10 missile, better known in the West as the SS-20, has been destroyed,” the official Soviet news agency Tass said in a report from Kapustin Yar, a testing range in southern Russia.
Under the U.S.-Soviet Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed in 1987, both sides agreed to demolish 2,600 missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles.
The United States completed dismantling its missiles covered by the treaty earlier this year.
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