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Dick Lugar: Some suggest we should place interceptor technology into existing silos and perhaps even on existing strategic…

On the recordApril 28, 2010
Some suggest we should place interceptor technology into existing silos and perhaps even on existing strategic submarines, which New START would not permit.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar discusses the implications of placing interceptor technology in existing military systems.

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