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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013) : The Office, [1995]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)36215923 Subject: Disarmament. Excerpt: ... Appendix II Destruction and Dismantlement Projects The material impact to date of strategic delivery vehicle elimination aid Russia, in DOD actually delivered to Russia appears to have been limited. commenting on a draft of this report, stated that the CTR program has had important political and material impacts in advancing Russia's dismantlement effort - noting, for example, that the CTR program had contributed to the elimination of approximately 630 strategic launchers and bombers since the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse. However, in and of strategic delivery vehicle elimination CTR itself, the material impact of the aid provided to date is less than ' s comment would suggest, since DOD Russia had eliminated over 400 of these 630 launchers prior to initial 3 deliveries of this aid. Although Russia had succeeded in eliminating sufficient launchers to meet 4 its I delivery vehicle limit by April 1995, Russian officials told us START that their resources are strained by delivery vehicle dismantlement efforts and that they lack adequate amounts of advanced technology for some dismantlement procedures. Russia must transport and destroy thousands of metric tons of liquid rocket propellant and, for the first time, dispose of large quantities of solid rocket fuel. Russian officials emphasized that Russia would need the assistance even without implementation of START II. They told us that rocket fuel transportation and disposition were the most crucial bottlenecks in their meeting treaty obligations and that such difficulties had forced them to suspend dismantlement of liquid program is CTR fueled SS-18 missiles in Kazakhstan for 3 months. The providing equipment to safely transport and temporarily store liquid rocket fuel from dismantled missiles. has also awarded a contract to DOD 5 dispose of the liquid fuel (
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