Russia Begins Destruction of SS-24 ICBMs

Russia has begun to dismantle some of its 10-warhead SS-24 ICBMs, ITAR-Tass reported last week. The missiles are being decommissioned at a facility in Perm and six rail-mobile launchers are set for destruction this year at a site in Bryansk, the press service reported (see GSN, June 16, 2003; ITAR-Tass, Feb. 6).

Russia has 36 SS-24s, but 12 were reportedly taken off alert in 2002, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council fact sheet (NRDC Nuclear Notebook/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2003).

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