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December

• U.S. Navy Conducts Final Flight-Tests of Lockheed Martin-built Trident I C4 Fleet Ballistic Missiles Lockheed Martin 19 Dec 2001 -- The U.S. Navy yesterday successfully fired three TRIDENT I C4 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, Calif.
• Navy Awards General Dynamics $60 Million for Systems Engineering Support for Trident II Submarines General Dynamics 18 Dec 2001 -- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded three contracts this month by the U.S. Navy for engineering and operational support for Trident II submarines.
• U.S. Navy conducts successful test of Lockheed Martin-built Trident I C4 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles Lockheed Martin 10 Dec 2001 -- Four U.S. Navy TRIDENT I C4 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, Calif., were successfully test fired from the USS OHIO (SSBN 726) in a launch operation conducted yesterday on the Atlantic test range east of Cape Canaveral off the Florida coast.
• Text: START Treaty Final Reductions Achieved, Powell Says Washington File 05 Dec 2001-- The United States and the Russian Federation have successfully reduced their strategic nuclear arsenals from more than 10,000 warheads to 6,000 under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), Secretary of State Colin Powell says.

November

• Text: Bolton Says Iraq, North Korea Violate Biological Weapons Pact Washington File 19 Nov 2001-- John R. Bolton, under secretary of state for arms control and international security, has accused Iraq and North Korea of pursuing biological weapons programs in violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
• BUSH / PUTIN VOA 13 Nov 2001-- President Bush says he is ready to dramatically reduce America's long-range nuclear arsenal by about two-thirds
• Transcript: Bush Announces Deep Cuts in Nuclear Arsenal Washington File 13 Nov 2001-- The United States will sharply cut its nuclear arsenal over the next ten years, President Bush announced November 13 at a joint news conference at the White House with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
• Bush, Putin Agree on Cutting Nuclear Arsenals Washington File 13 Nov 2001-- But discussions continue on ABM Treaty
• SUMMIT & NUCLEAR ISSUE VOA 10 Nov 2001-- Keeping the world safe from nuclear weapons is a key issue at the summit meeting this coming week between U-S President Bush and Russian President Putin. Given the September 11tg attacks in the United States, a special concern is that nuclear weapons might fall into the hands of terrorists like Osama bin Laden

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• U.S. Navy Notches Another Successful Test of the Lockheed Martin-Built Trident II D5 Missiles Lockheed Martin 14 May 2001 -- A U.S. Navy TRIDENT II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, Calif., was successfully launched in a test conducted today from the USS KENTUCKY (SSBN 737) at the Eastern Test Range off the Florida coast.

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March

• ATK/Thiokol Joint Venture Awarded Contracts Totaling $80 Million for Trident Missile Propulsion Systems ATK 29 Mar 2001 -- ATK (NYSE: ATK)(Alliant Techsystems) said the ATK/Thiokol Propulsion Consolidated Joint Venture has been awarded two contracts with a combined value of $80 million from Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company -- Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale, Calif., to produce solid propulsion systems for all three stages of the U.S. Navy's Trident II (D-5) Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM).
• Lockheed Martin demonstrates low-cost method for manufacturing large, complex composite structures in Advanced Fleet Ballistic Missile Project Lockheed Martin 14 Mar 2001 -- Lockheed Martin Space Systems operations Advanced Technology Center, working with the structural design engineers from the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program, successfully demonstrated use of a low-cost, vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process to manufacture a large, complex structure integral to the TRIDENT II D5 fleet ballistic missile. T

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