ENERGY CRISIS ENDANGERS ROCKET FORCES.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 140

The energy supply crisis in Russia’s Far East (See Monitor, July 17) could leave strategic rocket facilities in the region without power and endanger the nation’s security, a senior strategic rocket forces officer said yesterday. Russia’s forces are no less vulnerable to such threats than they were in September, 1994, when power was cut to a strategic rocket forces’ command post in Plesetsk, he added. (Itar-Tass, July 17)

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