Germany to Destroy 24 Inherited Missiles
BONN — Germany will destroy the 24 Soviet mid-range SS-23 missiles it inherited from the East German military inventory, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
The missiles have neither warheads nor launchers, the ministry said, and they will be destroyed by 1994.
The missiles, supplied to East Germany as a Warsaw Pact member, are of the same type that Moscow was to destroy under terms of the 1987 Soviet-U.S. treaty removing medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe. The 24 rockets came into possession of NATO member Germany when the two Germanys united last October.
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