[EXCERPTS] DoD News Briefing
Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon, ASD (PA) Thursday, May 1, 1997 - 2 p.m.
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Q: Could you give us a read-out on the Ukraine visit, what the elements of
these agreements are that they signed?
A: As you know, the government of Ukraine decided in 1993 to abolish its
nuclear weapons, but then it had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the
world, probably about 2,000 nuclear warheads. It did this with the
assistance of the Nunn/Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
The agreement they signed on the Strategic Nuclear Arms Elimination
Agreement basically provides an additional $47 million earmarked to help
them destroy some remaining delivery vehicles and silos. They've shipped
out all the nuclear warheads. They still are destroying some of the
infrastructure of the strategic arms arsenal that they had. It will also mean
that they can begin planning for the destruction of SS-24 missiles. They've
been concentrating primarily on SS-19s.
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