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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. september 2011 / Timeline September 23, 2011
Version 3.522. September 2011, 24. September 2011
09/23/2011
Nunn-Lugar Destroys Nuclear Warheads, Deadly Chemical Weapons
“Earlier this month, Americans commemorated 10 years since terrorists launched their assault on our way of life. We know that terrorists would use nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons if they had them. Today, we celebrate destroying more of the world’s most deadly weapons, never again having to worry that they will be used against us.”
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar announced the following progress in the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program during June and July 2011.
· 2 nuclear warheads deactivated
· 2 ICBM mobile launchers destroyed
· 7 nuclear weapons transport train shipments, and
· 256.36 metric tons of chemical weapons agent neutralized.
The Nunn-Lugar scorecard now totals 7,601 strategic nuclear warheads deactivated, 791 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) destroyed, 498 ICBM silos eliminated, 182 ICBM mobile launchers destroyed, 155 bombers eliminated, 906 nuclear air-to-surface missiles (ASMs) destroyed, 492 SLBM launchers eliminated, 670 submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) eliminated, 33 nuclear submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles destroyed, 194 nuclear test tunnels eliminated, 194 nuclear test tunnels/holes sealed, destroyed 2247.3 metric tons of Russian and Albanian chemical weapons agent, 536 nuclear weapons transport train shipments secured, upgraded security at 24 nuclear weapons storage sites, built and equipped 34 biological threat monitoring stations.
Perhaps most importantly, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus are nuclear weapons free as a result of cooperative efforts under the Nunn-Lugar program. Those countries were the third, fourth and eighth largest nuclear weapons powers in the world.
Lugar makes annual oversight missions to Nunn-Lugar Global sites around the world. During his most recent mission, Lugar led a mission to East Africa to expand efforts to secure deadly biological threats.
In November 1991, Lugar (R-IN) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA) authored the Nunn-Lugar Act, which established the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. This program has provided U.S. support and expertise to help the former Soviet Union safeguard and dismantle its enormous stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, related materials, and delivery systems. In 2003, Congress adopted Senator Lugar’s Nunn-Lugar Expansion Act, which authorized operators outside the former Soviet Union to address proliferation threats. In 2004, Nunn-Lugar funds were committed for the first time outside of the former Soviet Union to destroy chemical weapons in Albania, under a Lugar-led expansion of the program. In 2007, Lugar announced the complete destruction of Albania’s chemical weapons.
The Nunn-Lugar program: http://lugar.senate.gov/nunnlugar/
The Nunn-Lugar scorecard: http://lugar.senate.gov/nunnlugar/scorecard.html
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