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Last Peacekeeper Deactivated

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-more-big-stick-just-speak-softly dept.

Inthewire writes "The United States Air Force deactivated the last of 50 Peacekeeper missiles yesterday. The Peacekeeper was an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of accurately placing a 300 Kt W-87 warhead on ten individual targets."

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  1. Re:without comment by TomSawyer · · Score: 2, Informative
    Date of Berlin Wall falling November 9, 1989

    Date and cost of final deployment

    What's your point? The CCCP trying to keep up with those kinds of numbers was a contributing factor to the fall of the wall.

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  2. Re:Gotta love that Ministry of Truth by aelbric · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Pacis est nostrum professio"

    Does sound better in Latin. :)

    Compliments of Latin Translator

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    nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos