The Air Force removed the last intercontinental ballistic missile scheduled to be packed up from its launch facility June 2, finishing the 50-missile drawdown eight months ahead of the deadline required by the New START treaty, service spokesman Capt. Mark Graff confirmed June 22. The pact, implemented in February 2011 between the United States and Russia, limits each military to owning 700 deployed land-based ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and nuclear-equipped bombers; 1,550 nuclear warheads across the three legs of of...
