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To: DCBryan1

Did the missiles themselves get demolished, or just de-warheaded and stored?

Hydrogen bomb warheads have fairly short shelf lives, a few years, because of the rapid deterioration of the tritium that helps give them their bang. As long as nobody lost the plans for how to make new ones...


8 posted on 12/11/2014 12:31:17 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Everything on the Pershing II is gone. Warheads recycled at Pantex plant in late 90s. Only Inert museum missile left that can’t be launched again sit at a few museums.


10 posted on 12/11/2014 12:32:38 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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