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CTR Program Deactivates Six Warheads
The U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction program last month deactivated six nuclear warheads from the former The Nunn-Lugar program also destroyed an ICBM as well as two SS-N-23 ballistic missiles, submarine-launched weapons that could each carry four independently targeted warheads farther than 5,100 miles. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union maintained seven Delta IV-class submarines — each equipped with 16 SS-N-23 missiles and 48 other SLBMs — that it often used to patrol the Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. coastline. The CTR program this month also completed the destruction of Since it was established in 1991 to secure and eliminate weapons of mass destruction in former Soviet states, the Nunn-Lugar program has deactivated 7,266 strategic nuclear warheads and destroyed 683 ICBMs, 496 silos, 125 mobile ICBM launchers, 629 SLBMs, 456 SLBM launchers, 30 ballistic missile-capable submarines, 155 strategic bombers, 906 nuclear air-to-surface missiles and 194 nuclear test tunnels. The initiative has also secured 382 nuclear weapon train shipments, increased security measures at 16 nuclear weapon storage facilities and built 13 biological agent monitoring stations. Efforts under the program have denuclearized Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, nations that once respectively held the world’s third, fourth and eighth largest nuclear arsenals. By sponsoring the International Science and Technology Centers, the Nunn-Lugar program has helped to provide civilian opportunities for 58,000 former weapons researchers. The International Proliferation Prevention Program has involved 14,000 former weapons personnel in 750 projects and established 580 technology-sector positions (U.S. Senator Richard Lugar release, April 15).
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