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USA to Scrap Nuclear-armed Cruise Missiles

Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles to be Scrapped, U.S. Says globalsecuritynewswire.o Feb. 22, 2010 A forthcoming U.S. nuclear strategy review is likely to call for elimination of the country’s nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles, Japanese officials told Kyodo News today (see GSN, July 31, 2009).Plans to slowly phase out the missiles, unofficially communicated to Tokyo earlier this year, were prompted in part by the expense of caring for the weapons. The United States pulled the missiles from its submarines as the Cold War ended, but the weapons were maintained in case they again became necessary, U.S. nuclear experts said.

NTI: Global Security Newswire – Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles to be Scrapped, U.S. Says

February 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons