Last Remaining Peacekeeper ICBM Silos Removed From Service

By James Drew / April 20, 2015 at 4:08 PM
The Air Force has sealed the last of its Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile launch silos including one test launcher at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, as the United States and Russia move closer toward compliance with agreed New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty numbers. The last remaining Peacekeeper silos were decommissioned in February and now no longer count as non-deployed ICBM launchers under the provisions of the New START treaty with Russia, according to Col. Thomas Summers, a senior official at...

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